The Ministry of Health and Community Protection decided to allow private health facilities to resume providing all their health services, which had previously been suspended or postponed, with previous decisions, with the exception of surgical operations that could be postponed, with the need to ensure in advance in relation to operations that cannot be postponed the availability of blood units and their components for use when needed.
Administrative Resolution No. 6009 of 2020, issued by the Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Policy and Licensing, Dr. Amin Hussein Al-Amiri, and Emirates Today obtained a copy of it, emphasized that private health facilities must adhere to a number of precautionary and preventive measures, represented in operating Only 30% of the capacity of the facilities, in order to preserve public safety and prevent infection, and obligate all workers in the health facility to wear personal protection supplies and equipment, including masks, gloves, and other supplies depending on the nature of the work.
The ministry also stipulated that all workers in the facility be subjected to a daily heat test, to provide hand sanitizers at the entrance to the health facility, to compel users to use it upon entry, to subject all dealers to a heat test at the entrance to the health facility, and to take appropriate measures in that regard, with the need to keep a distance of no less For one and a half meters among the workers inside the facility, without prejudice to the requirements and requirements of performing work and providing the service, and obliging the auditors to keep a distance of not less than one and a half meters between them, by placing signs or stickers on the floors in the parking places designated for that, including the places designated for waiting.
The Ministry stressed the need for medical facilities to organize appointments, in a manner that ensures that auditors are not crowded and crowded in a manner that prevents the application of preventive and precautionary measures to avoid the transmission of infection, while placing banners and posters throughout the health facility clarifying the correct preventive measures such as washing hands and using sterilizers to prevent the transmission of infection, as well Preventive measures to avoid crowding and overcrowding of staff and workers within the health facility.
The Ministry stressed the need to sterilize health facility facilities periodically, taking care of the reception areas for auditors, consulting rooms and elevators, and all door handles, according to the guidelines approved by the Ministry of Health and Community Protection, with the need to close all areas of children's play and entertainment rooms in the health facility and emphasize the auditors not to Take children with them, when reviewing the health facility, unless the child is the same patient, and make sure to know and work with the protocols for dealing with suspected and confirmed cases of the virus «Covid-19».
The Ministry warned against non-compliance with the previous procedures, confirming that any violation of the decision would expose its perpetrator to the sanctions and penalties mentioned in the legislation in force in the country.
The necessity of sterilizing the health facility facilities periodically, while taking care of the auditor reception areas