Via The Hindu , excerpt :
" COIMBATORE: The Department of Public Health plans to put up A(H1N1) influenza screening booths at the check posts on the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border in Nagercoil, Tirunelveli, Theni, Coimbatore, Tirupur and the Nilgiris districts.
The move comes in the wake of a number of cases being reported in Kerala, Director of Public Health R.T. Porkai Pandian told TheHindu here on Sunday. The screening would, however, be voluntary. There was no plan for compulsory screening of passengers who travelled from Kerala by buses or other modes of transport, he said.
With a 45-year-old man of Nagercoil testing positive for the flu recently, the health department wanted to tighten surveillance and also step up sensitisation at points where human habitations were high on either side of the border.
A doctor, a village health nurse and a health inspector would be posted in each booth.
If people with sore throat and fever approached them, they would be checked for more definite symptoms and advised to go the nearest primary health centre.
Handbills containing instructions on how to avoid spreading or contracting the flu virus would be distributed."
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