Tigerair Taiwan cabin crew to be fined for negligence
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/21
By: Central News Agency
Kaohsiung (CNA) – Two cabin crew members of Tigerair Taiwan who worked on flights
Tigerair Taiwan crew to be fined over measles outbreak. (By Central News Agency)
while infected with measles are being fined by Kaohsiung City’s Department of Health for violating the Communicable Disease Control Act, resulting in a cluster infection of cases for the airline.
On March 17, a 30-year old Taiwanese man who contracted measles in Thailand and would become Taiwan’s first case of imported measles of the year, took a Tigerair Taiwan flight to Japan, during which he infected two cabin crew members with the virus.
When the Centers for Disease Control announced that the man was infected with measles on March 29, Tigerair Taiwan sent an internal memo to all its staff to report any symptoms and their travel history to the company.
The two cabin crew members — a 34-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman — however, continued to work on flights until they fell seriously ill and were diagnosed with measles in early April, which, according to the health department, violates the principle of self-management and the Communicable Disease Control Act. [FULL STORY]
