Protocols on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla – El Norte de Castilla

Protocols on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla – El Norte de Castilla

The Ministry of Health has implemented the protocol in Spanish airports in order to avoid entering Spain people infected with Ebola.

This was confirmed by the deputy director of Environmental Health and Occupational Health, Ministry of Health, Fernando Carreras, who explained that “the main activities to be done are the main entry points to the EU Africa”. In the case of Nigeria, where there is direct flight to Spain, the Spanish authorities will perform the “same procedures as other countries.”

In particular, according to this protocol, if be an issue of this kind on board, the pilot should inform the control tower that will in turn report it to the airport and the corresponding foreign health service would “be responsible for assessing the situation.”

However, if there are no issues and is a flight coming from any of those infected with Ebola countries, it will inform all passengers on what to do in case you later causes any symptoms.

Protocols on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla

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Also, the director General of the National Police (CNP), Ignacio Cosidó, said that “it will reinforce in a double sense” sanitary protocols in Spanish territories of Ceuta and Melilla to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants infected by Ebola, ” increasing control to a global emergency “, as it has ruled WHO and” take all measures that are necessary “to prevent contagion among members of the National Police.

Furthermore, Cosidó he commented that the police currently have an action plan in which any immigrant entering Spain illegally is subjected to a medical examination and, in the case where some kind of disease is detected, “especially if contagious “is derived specialized centers so you can be” properly treated “.

Meetings with the EU and the ACs

Also, Carreras explidado representatives from the Ministry of Health are holding coordination meetings via videoconference, with members Safety Committee of the European Union and the regions to follow the recommendations set by the World Health Organization (WHO), following the declaration of “public health emergency” international.

In this regard been agreed with the EU to issue reports on the activities carried out with respect to Ebola.

Spain already has a case of Ebola, Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who gave positive tests disease conducted in Monrovia (Liberia) and currently being treated at the Hospital Carlos III de Madrid.