VIENTIANE, May 27 (Bernama) -- The Singapore Technologies Telemedia Company presented a A(H1N1) Thermal camera to Lao government to be installed in Wattay Airport to detect air passengers who are stricken with any kind of flu or fever, Lao news agency (KPL) reported.
During the handover ceremony on Monday at Wattay Airport near here, the Singapore Ambassador to Laos, Jeyaraj Benjamin William, handed the high-tech equipment to Cheuang Sombounkhan, Minister to the Prime Minister's Office and Secretariat Head of Control of Communicable Diseases.
The director general of this company said that the purpose of this gift is to prevent the outbreak of influenza in Laos and also to foster good relations between Laos and Singapore.
The company also provided two experts to install and train Lao technicians.
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thanks again for foreign aid! hope this camera can scan and know who has fever higher than 35.8?
Lao officials continue to take measures to prevent swine flu outbreak by using temperature measuring equipments installed at their international border checkpoints to check both Lao and foreign passengers traveling to and from the country.
Mr. Cheuang Sombounkhanh, Minister to the Prime Minister's Office and the Lao government's Chief of Staff, said that although currently there is no A-H1N1 swine flu case reported in Laos, authorities have taken necessary measures to prevent an outbreak because the government has issued an urgent order for officials to take all the necessary preventive steps, especially the daily monitoring of the temperature of both Lao and foreign
passengers arriving at and departing from Laos' international border checkpoints across the nation.
Mr. Sombounkhanh made the statement at the ceremony to accept a thermo scanner or temperature measuring equipment, the first such equipment provided to Laos, as a gift from the government of Singapore. The scanner, valued at 75,000 US dollars, was installed at the Vientiane International Airport at Wattay, where most of the arriving and departing passengers pass through. Officials say there are over 100 thousand people traveling in and out of the country daily.
A passenger passes through a thermo scanner at Wattay Airport
IN Thailand got 7 cases of H1N1 and the first 4 case was got from came back from American and Maxico but now some of member of family also just got it. That mean H1N1 already spread human to human hapening in Thailand so soon will be come into Lao and Lao have only 1 Thermal scan in the airport. But no have in the border points. How?
IN Thailand got 7 cases of H1N1 and the first 4 case was got from came back from American and Maxico but now some of member of family also just got it. That mean H1N1 already spread human to human hapening in Thailand so soon will be come into Lao and Lao have only 1 Thermal scan in the airport. But no have in the border points. How?
the first vaccine will start to produce and use next month, hopefully can prevent the flu.
