Ministry of Health checks body temperature detection equipment at Minangkabau Airport to anticipate Corona virus

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Ministry of Health checks body temperature detection equipment at Minangkabau Airport to anticipate Corona virus

Minister of Health Expert Staff, Roby Pattiselanno checked body temperature detection equipment at the Minangkabau International Airport in Padang Pariaman, W Sumatra. (Antara / Fandi Yogari)

Padang (ANTARA) - Expert Staff of the Minister of Health, Roby Pattiselanno, checked body temperature detection equipment at Minangkabau International Airport in Padang Pariaman, W Sumatra as part of early detection of anticipating the spread of the corona virus.

"Minangkabau Airport is one of the entrances from abroad to W Sumatra, a day there are three flights from Malaysia and a few days before there were direct flights from China, based on checking the thermal scanner works well," he said in Padang on Tuesday.

According to him, the purpose of checking the equipment is to ensure that the equipment is functioning properly and now there are two tools that are alerted, one in use and another as a backup.

"I have checked and both functions well when there are passengers coming from abroad the temperature above 37 degrees Celsius will be detected immediately," he said.

Roby said that when a passenger is detected, his body temperature is hot, does not automatically mean that he has corona.

The thermal scaner cannot detect the corona and to find out it needs further inspection to a laboratory test, he said.

Therefore when there is someone whose body temperature is hot do not immediately labeled corona, it could be a common cold or other illness, he said.

He said that if there were passengers with high body temperatures, further tests would be carried out and to ensure that the corona virus had to be tested in Jakarta with the fastest time of three days to find out the results.

Related to the anticipation of handling the corona virus, he ensured that in Central Public Hospital M. Djamil Padang had been prepared two isolation rooms with two beds .

In addition, health workers are also ready to handle if there are affected by symptoms, he said.

The isolation room is functioning well and meets the standards for handling infectious infection cases, he said. (*)

Transleted by: Mutiara Ramadhani

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