Panaji, Aug 6 (Inditop.com) Goa, the country’s leading tourist destination, is yet to receive thermal scanners from the civil aviation ministry to scan incoming passengers for swine flu symptoms, Health Minister Vishwajeet Rane said here Thursday.
Rane told the assembly that it was essential to have the thermal scanners installed at the state’s Dabolim airport at the earliest in view of the tourist season beginning next month.
“We have still not received any scanners from the civil aviation ministry. We need the scanners before the chartered tourist season starts,” Rane said.
Nearly 200,000 foreign tourists a year visit the state on chartered flight tours, mostly from Europe.
Thermal scanners scan body temperatures.
Rane said that with the popular festival of Ganesh Chaturthi round the corner, the state health administration will keep a special eye on people travelling to Goa from Pune, which Monday recorded India’s first death from swine flu.
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