200 docs, police deployed at RGIA

Some 200 doctors and

200 police personnel have been deployed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad for health tests of passengers arriving from abroad and maintaining order. Three entry points have been designated for passenger checks after the passengers are separated into three categories based on their current health status.

On Sunday, Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar reviewed the arrangements at the airport for screening of passengers. Some

64,000 passengers have been screened at the airport since the outbreak of the virus.

Symptomatic passengers are referred to Gandhi Hospital for further treatment, nonsymptomatic passengers coming from the risk zone countries are checked and quarantined, and those coming from other countries and do not have symptoms are advised to be house quarantined, said the commissioner. Under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), health workers will check the house-quarantined passengers for 14 days. All international passengers are screened with thermal imaging equipment and if any symptoms are identified, or scrutiny of their self-declaration forms warrants it, they are sent to the designated hospital in protective equipment such as masks, dress, gloves, headgear, goggles, and shoes, as per protocol.

“Around 200 doctors divided into three teams, and medical staff with sufficient ambulances, are working round-the-clock. About 200 police personnel from the Cyberabad Commissionerate and also from the Central Industrial Security Force are guarding the airport,” Mr Sajjanar said.