There were advertisements for cafes promoting social service for shisha delivery of homes, following the decision to close all cafes in the country, as part of precautionary measures to limit the spread of the Corona virus.
While two doctors warned that smoking hookah in the homes is more dangerous to public health, as it may be transferred from a sick person, which leads to the transmission of infection to the smoker, and all members of his family who sat with him during smoking.
In detail, «Emirates Today» has detected advertisements for cafes through social media pages that promote the delivery of hookah to homes within 30 minutes, to be used two hours per customer at home, with a renewal of the period for a price ranging between 50 and 75 dirhams.
“The risk of contracting a virus as a result of delivering hookah to homes is high, and I cannot accept some people's fear of ordering meals from restaurants, while they ask for hookah from cafes, unconcerned about the danger of exposing them,” said Dr. Jihad Saadeh, director of Infectious Pathology and Immunology, Director of the Medical Care Laboratory. For infectious diseases.
He explained that the hookah is more dangerous to public health, because it comes into direct contact with the mouth, and the infection comes from the "smiling face" that is placed in its tube, and blowing it back to clean it may transfer the infection from one infected person to another healthy one.
He added that the delivery of "hookah" hookah should be banned, given its serious health and the rapid transmission of the virus to homes and its smokers, pointing out that if a smoker smokes a hookah personally without asking it from cafes, he must not share it with another, and smoke it Away from family members who suffer from weak immunity and respiratory diseases.
He pointed out that the percentage of transmission of the "Corona" virus through hookah from one smoker to another may reach 2%, in the event that an infected person uses it, and it was transferred to another customer without sterilization and cleaning it well.
The consultant pediatric, infectious and immunological diseases, Dr. Hossam Al-Tatry, said that "smoking hookah (dolphin) is dangerous in all cases, as it comes to the house contaminated, and infects the smoker and his family, and in the event that the person infected with the virus smoke the hookah, it will transfer the disease to individuals Family ».
He explained that the “Stay in the Home” campaign means staying in a closed circle, and no one enters or leaves your house, and this does not exclude the worker who brings the hookah to the house, pointing out that the hookah cannot be cleaned upon its arrival at the house, because the infection may have passed through The tube in which another person or the coffee shop worker breathed, and contact with the bottle, may transmit the virus and spread the disease.
He pointed out that the rate of infection with the virus if the hookah was contaminated, or was used by an infected person is very high, and someone who sits near the smoker at a distance of less than two meters was introduced to the virus or infection, and it must be prevented and prohibited from presenting the hookah to homes permanently, because its seriousness No less dangerous than smoking it in cafes.
Shisha is more dangerous in transmitting the disease to touch the mouth, and infection from the "smiling".