Private Transport Association to cooperate with BMTA in protecting passengers from new flu strain

BANGKOK, 15 August 2009 (NNT)-The Private Transport Association has expressed its readiness to cooperate with the Bangkok Metropolitan Transit Authority (BMTA) in providing hand gels to passengers to combat Influenza A H1N1.

President of the Private Transport Association Chatchai Chaiwiset stated today that the association would cooperate with the BMTA in its efforts against Influenza A H1N1. The association will begin fitting its vehicles with hand gel dispensers in line with the policies of the BMTA’s interim director Opas Petchmunee who assured that the measure would help stifle disease spread.

Public transport vehicles in Bangkok have also resolved to regularly be disinfected with alcohol and have handed out face masks to passengers.