(Trinidad Express) Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Colin Furlonge says it will cost about US$60,000 to purchase thermal cameras to fight the threat of Ebola at the country’s two airports.
He also said while Ebola was dangerous, there was no need to panic, since “Ebola does not jump from one person to another….it is spread by bodily fluids”.
Via a telephone interview on Thursday, Furlonge said: “We are in the process of getting the cameras. We are using standard monitoring until the cameras arrive. We have to go through Cabinet within a week or two. We will spend whatever is required… about US$60,000, two for Piarco and Scarborough. The Tobago House of Assembly (THA) will guide us.”
Commenting on the anxiety that is gripping the society, Furlonge added: “We want to be scientific in dealing with Ebola. It is something symptomatic. It is not something to panic about. All the scenarios that are being painted is panic. Ebola is not going to jump out of the person and bite you. You can only get it by direct contact.”
