"Dubai Health" specifies public safety controls
"Emergency Protocol" in nurseries
The "commission" called on nurseries to save parents' phones to contact them in cases of emergency.
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The Dubai Health Authority has developed an "emergency protocol" in educational institutions for young people, which includes: Public safety controls, and requirements that must be met in its own clinics.
The authority stated that the new protocol obliges nurseries and child education centers to equip their health clinics with medical equipment, supplies and basic medicines, and that nurseries or child education centers keep parents ’phone numbers to contact them in emergency situations.
In the event that a child is suspected of being infected, he must be isolated from other children until he is handed over to his parents or caregiver, and in the event that the child is given any medications or treatment, the nurse must notify the parents and document this.
The authority stressed the need for the clinic in nurseries or children's education centers to have staff and equipment, and for their workers to be qualified to deal with emergency medical cases.
It also stressed the maintenance of equipment used in patient care, according to manufacturers' specifications.
The authority specified the physical requirements of the nursing clinic and its supplies, including: standard equipment and furniture, which is a desk and chairs or a file rack, a cabinet with lock for supplies and tools, a height-adjustable examination sofa, with a washable mattress, or an impermeable plastic sheet, a towel to cover it, and a liquid soap dispenser. Non-refillable with undiluted liquid soap, disposable paper towel dispenser, electric hand dryer, foot operated covered waste bin, refrigerator with ice pack, and a medium sized bulletin board.
Requirements also include standard equipment, such as: a children's height and weight meter, a blood pressure monitor, a stethoscope, an eye chart, a tuning fork, a battery-lit device, a thermometer, a container for placing medical supplies (jaliboot), a wheelbarrow, bandage scissors, and a pickup. , Oxygen cylinder with regulator, flow counter, nebulizers, glucose meter, first aid kit.
The standard supplies identified by the authority also included disposable wooden spoons, disposable hand towels, medicine cups, sterile cotton swabs, sterile gauze pads, disposable gloves, gauze pads of various sizes, splints of different sizes, and elastic bandages of different sizes. Adhesive bandages in various sizes, oxygen face masks, 70% alcohol, antiseptic solutions, and a normal saline solution.
She explained that the responsibilities of managing clinics in educational facilities include notifying parents of any suspected deviation from the normal or usual health of the child as a result of the clinical evaluation, physical examination or the observation of the nursery staff, and administering the drug after obtaining the consent of parents or guardians.
She pointed out that the nurse is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality of health records, maintaining a complete, comprehensive and accurate health record for every child, and for health records to include recent history and physical examination, and any relevant notes and immunization records, and for health records to clarify allergies and drug interactions, while storing records in a safe place that facilitates Reach it.
In the event of electronic records, the authority requested the administration to guarantee authorization and access to data, based on the privileges granted.
She indicated that when a child moves to another nursery or another education center, a copy of the complete and cumulative health record must be transferred to the health workers in the new nursery or center, to which the child is transferred, or handed over to his parents.
"The new protocol obliges children's education centers to equip their clinics with basic equipment and medicines."
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