TASHKENT, Jul 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – Uzbekistan tightened sanitary-medical controls at its border crossings, amid a reported cholera outbreak in neighbouring Afghanistan, Uzbek public health authorities said, yesterday.
All customs posts at land and air border crossings, have been provided with thermal imagers and non-contact thermometers, for examining those arriving in Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service said in a statement.
It said, reserve beds and medicines in infectious diseases hospitals have been prepared for sick or suspected patients with cholera.
Uzbekistan shares a 144-km border with Afghanistan, with road and railway connections on a bridge over the Amudarya river.– NNN-XINHUA
