Monday, March 19, 2012

S’Africa Bound Passengers Face Hell At Lagos Airport| Sun

As Nigeria/South African governments claim to have settled the deportation crisis arising from non possession of genuine vaccination cards, Johannesburg-bound passengers are yet to feel the impact of the truce.
Investigations by Daily Sun revealed that Nigerian passengers traveling to South Africa are now forced by the airlines to procure fresh vaccination cards from Port Health office at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos, even when they tender vaccination cards and receipts from local government health departments, which is a proof that they have been inoculated. 



When the reporter got to the MMIA, scores of passengers milled around the port health office to get vaccinated.
The ugly situation has forced desperate passengers to get double yellow fever vaccination, so as to board the airplane.
Aside forceful procurement of fresh vaccination cards, some of them miss their flights because the boarding gate would have closed by the time they are done with vaccination at the Port Health Office ... Trendinaija Source/Read More

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