Bali Airport Continues To Prevent The Spread Of Zika Virus At I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport

Mangupura –Health Airport Committee held another conference aboutcoordinationon Zika virus spreadingpreventionat I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airporton Thursday morning (29/9). The coordination meeting led by Yusfandri Gona the Head of Airport Authority area IVevaluates the efforts that have been made by the Health Airport Committee in preventing the entry of Zika virusinto Bali.

Anticipating the entry of Zika epidemic, the Port Health Office has added a body temperature scanner. Currently operates 2 scanner installed at the international arrivals terminal. As the name implies, this tool serves to detect the body temperature of passengers.

If found passengers with temperatures above 38 degrees Celsius, it will be further examined by a medical team from the CTF. If indicated hit by Zika virus, then we will refer to the hospital, said Gona, encountered after the meeting.

Met separately, General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Suprayogi Yanus said that prevention efforts are also made to prevent the breeding of aedes aegypti in the airport environment.

"We routinely conduct fogging throughout the airport area, including a residential area," declared Yanus.

"Not only fogging, the manager of the airport also did abatisasi in the terminal and the open waters of the potential for proliferation of mosquito larvae. For early action to prevent the spread of this virus is to maintain the cleanliness of the environment, especially from puddles become breeding places of mosquito larvae and adults," he added.

"As education to passengers and airport workers, we also do socialization to prevent the spread of the virus and a healthy lifestyle," Yanus said.