Dubai Municipality has carried out a massive and extensive sterilization campaign that included housing for workers in farms and estate in several areas of the Emirate of Dubai, and the campaign included verifying the application of health and safety standards and following workers with approved health practices and providing educational information to them, whether on ways to prevent the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) or Other public health and safety measures, in the context of the comprehensive plan prepared by the municipality and covering many areas in the emirate, facilities, public and private places using innovative equipment and equipment and high technology.
Commenting on this step, which comes in the framework of the municipality’s keenness to strengthen preventive efforts aimed at preserving the health and safety of all members of society and strengthening precautionary measures to combat the Covid virus-19, said David Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality: “Our comprehensive plan for sterilization operations throughout Dubai Completely, awareness of the various entities about the necessary precautions and in addition to a wide range of other services that we provide in the same context, comes within the framework of the overall plan of the Dubai government to meet this exceptional circumstance to ensure the health and safety of society, which occupies an advanced position on the list of government priorities.
Al-Hajri added: "The workers category is one of the categories that the Dubai government attaches great attention to, at all times and it does not depend on the positions of crises, which we are currently experiencing one of the most difficult in the history of the contemporary world, as the municipality is keen through continuous follow-up and successive field visits to ensure safety The living conditions of workers and the availability of all elements of safety for them, at all times, while the municipality has intensified its efforts at the present time in this regard and in cooperation with all the concerned authorities in the Emirate of Dubai, and within the framework of solidarity and complementarity of efforts in order to ensure the full protection of workers as well as raising the level of Awareness of their awareness and providing them with information that guides them to protect them from exposure to either corona virus or other environmental or health damages. "
On the details of the campaign, Dr. Naseem Mohammed Rafie, Director of Health and Safety Department in Dubai Municipality said: “The sterilization campaign included identifying the targeted areas, farms and estates, and forming field work teams with five work teams that include four monitors and 10 workers, where the teams carried out the spraying of disinfectants and sterilizers, In addition to educating farm workers and singles, the campaign included sterilization of 1338 farms and estate in 16 regions of the emirate, and awareness of 5776 workers in those farms and singles, and that the total sterilizers that were used after mitigation amounted to 41 thousand and 300 liters, indicating that the sterilization process was carried out by specialists So that safety and mushy guidelines are followed Use of the product and the percentage of dilution and mixing ratios conform to the requirements of safety and effectiveness adopted to ensure safe use.
Mohammed Al-Dhanhani, Director of the Safety Department of Dubai Municipality, said sterilization and disinfection procedures have been applied in all hospital accommodation facilities for hospital employees, as well, as they included all hospital facilities as well as workers rooms and external squares, indicating that all products used in disinfection and sterilization in the Emirate of Dubai are evaluated and verified as effective and recorded In the “My Product” system, it contains the same active substances as those listed in the EPA approved lists and the CBC antimicrobial chemicals center lists which are the same materials recommended by the World Health Organization as active substances during sterilization operations. The latest equipment and technologies, with effective materials, are approved worldwide.