Pakistan, May 27 -- The Sindh Health Department has tightened Ebola prevention measures at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport amid growing global concerns over the deadly virus.

A high-level emergency meeting chaired by Special Secretary Health Fawad Ghaffar Soomro reviewed preparedness measures at the airport, including surveillance, rapid response systems and isolation ward arrangements, it emerged on Tuesday.

Health Sindh Director General Dr Waqar Memon and officials from the Sindh Health Department, Airport Security Force (ASF), Federal Investigation (FIA) and others attended the meeting.

The meeting comes after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, the third-largest s...