Saturday, October 04, 2014 | 12:21 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson is set to meet with representatives of the entertainment industry to address the issue of “non-essential travel” to Ebola-affected countries in West Africa.
“I intend to meet with the Association of Musicians and the tourism minister because we will have to make some tough decisions,” said Ferguson, who was speaking Friday at the official reopening of the Williamsfield Health Centre in Westmoreland.
“I have been appealing to persons including entertainers to avoid non-essential travel to the Ebola affected countries in West Africa. If they still decide to go, our actions may have to include quarantining persons,” Ferguson said.
Over the past months, steps have been taken to heighten surveillance and staff has already been sensitised and trained specifically with respect to Ebola, the ministry said in a release today.
It added that public hospitals across the island have identified isolation areas and a facility has been refurbished specifically to accommodate isolation for Ebola.?
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Entertainers who continue trips to Ebola-affected areas will be quarantined
