Arenavirus deaths--emergency air services tighten up.

According to the Chief Director for Communicable Diseases, Dr Frew Benson, the local air emergency services huddle was to be followed up ‘very soon’ by another with their SADC air emergency counterparts, ‘to identify gaps’. Speaking exclusively to Izindaba, Dr Benson said the two main weaknesses identified at the first meeting were the need for prior consultation by air evacuation services with South African Port Control officers (employed by the department of health) and timely consultation by Port Control officials with their own expert medical back-up teams.