Deploy Ebola monitoring teams at entry points: HC
The High Court today ordered the government to deploy monitoring and medical teams at all international airports, sea ports and land border to identify incoming Ebola infected persons and treat them, if there is any, at designated hospitals.
In response to a writ petition, the court also asked the government to immediately collect necessary testing or detecting equipment and medicine for Ebola virus, and therefore, ordered the finance ministry to provide enough funds for the purpose.
The HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan ordered the authorities concerned to arrange treatment for the Ebola-affected persons, if found any, by specialised doctors at some hospitals.
The court asked the government to carry out medical checkup to the six people, who reportedly returned to Bangladesh from Liberia, an Ebola affected country, recently and ensure their treatment, if found infected with the virus, at the designated hospitals.
After complying with the order, the government will have to submit a report before the court in two weeks.
The HC bench also issued a rule upon the government to explain why it should not be directed to take effective measures at all airports, seaports and land border of Bangladesh to identify Ebola-infected people, petitioner’s counsel Manzill Murshid told The Daily Star.
The secretaries to the ministries of health and home, chairman of civil aviation authorities and the director (administration), director general of department of health services and director general of immigration have been made respondent to the rules.
The HC came up with the rule and order after hearing the petition filed by Manzill Murshid on behalf of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh on October 15 seeking the HC directives upon the government to prevent Ebola contamination.
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