Centre's advocate Rui Rodrigues informed the court in response to the State government stating that the director of health services, Mumbai has written to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust/Mumbai Port Trust authorities to start screening of crew members of the vessels coming from Ebola-affected countries. A division bench of justice Abhay Oka and justice Girish Kulkarni heard a public interest litigation by activist Ketan Tirodkar questioning the preparedness of the government.
In an affidavit filed in compliance of the high court's September 10 order to provide with 48 hours health screening facilities at Pune and Nagpur airports, the government informed that medical staff has been deployed at Pune and Nagpur , which receives three and six flights in a week but they are not directly from Ebola affected countries. However it pointed out that thermal scanners, which are used for preliminary screening to identify variation of body temperature and are provided at Mumbai international airport, is not available at Pune and Nagpur. It urged for immediate despatch of thermal scanners saying at present only digital thermometers are being used for measure the temperature of pasengers.
The judges directed the Centre to reply to State government's affidavit and posted the hearing on September 17.
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