BEIRUT: The government-run Rafik Hariri Hospital is equipped to receive any potential Ebola-infected individual who enters Lebanon, and other big hospitals will be ready to do so in the next couple of weeks, Health Minister Wael Abu Faour said Wednesday.
“Within two weeks, 11 big hospitals equipped with more than 100 beds will be fully equipped to receive cases contaminated with the Ebola virus,” Abu Faour told reporters at Beirut's international airport.
He said incoming flights from infected countries will be quarantined on the tarmac and VIP service on those flights suspended, as all passengers would be thoroughly screened for any symptoms of the disease.
Abu Faour pointed out that six more nurses will be working at the airport to carry out checks inside the airplanes, before the passengers disembark.
“People with symptoms will be further examined upon arrival, and those who have the full set of symptoms will be transferred in a special ambulance to Rafik Hariri Hospital which has been equipped with quarantine facility for Ebola carriers,” Abu Faour said.
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