Individual listing created for 29 Togo passengers

Recently, an aircraft from Lome in Togo landed on the tarmac of the international airport of Douala. 29 passengers disembarked from the flight, among them, 24 Cameroonians and five foreigners who are residents in Cameroon.

"None of these passengers were sick, but, as two of the passengers came from Nigeria, two of Guinea Conakry and two others from Mali, we have established an individual listing for each of the 29 passengers where we have their contact information and their phone numbersin Cameroon as well as their country of residence.

"We also asked them the address of a close relative in Cameroon", explains Dr Victor Kame, Coordinator of the regional Centre for the prevention and the fight against epidemics (Cerple) in the Littoral region.

"Dr. Victor Kame says that they have subsequently established a record of 'surveillance' of these 29 passengers. "We’ve educated them, communicated with them so that they understand the importance of being able to follow them home”.

We already called more than half of them", he said. The Coordinator of Cerple in the Littoral explains that these precautions are taken in order to block the way for Ebola haemorrhagic fever which killed in Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

At the level of the international airport of Douala as everywhere in Cameroon, many preventive measures have been set up.