Sharjah Municipality confirmed that the public health sector and the central laboratories are making great efforts in adopting the best health practices and applying them in the city of Sharjah, and taking strict preventive measures and measures and obliging the institutions working in the field of food, such as restaurants and cafeterias, as well as barber salons and cosmetic centers, with requirements, health standards and preventive measures, especially in light of the circumstances The current sector also activated the remote work system in accordance with the best standards and transmitted awareness messages through the various communication channels of the municipality.
In detail, the Director General of Sharjah Municipality, Thabit Al-Tarifi, emphasized that the public health sector and the central laboratories provide the finest and best services to the customers, and works to develop and update the work system continuously and follow the best health practices that reflect the municipality’s concern for the health of consumers, placing it at the top of priorities and considers it a major goal for it Providing a health system by requiring establishments that directly concern the consumer with health requirements and standards and preventive and precautionary measures, especially in light of the current circumstances, which the municipality dealt with through the public health sector and central laboratories with efficiency and making proactive steps to limit the spread of the new Corona virus.
Inspection visits
The Assistant Director General of the Public Health Sector and Central Laboratories, Sheikha Shaza Al Mualla, explained that the municipality has intensified its inspection visits to all establishments that are subject to its control, such as restaurants, cafeterias, salons and beauty centers, where the municipality organized about 17 thousand inspection visits during the first quarter of this year to ensure that Its commitment to the health requirements and the precautionary measures that the municipality obligated to limit the spread of the virus, noting the intensification of visits during the recent period, especially on Eid.
The Assistant Director General of the Public Health Sector and the central laboratories pointed out that all the sector’s departments activated the remote work system and received the clients ’inquiries and transactions through the website, and allocated a sector-specific email to receive all the requests and transactions of the customers, noting that within one month via remote work was done Issuance of more than 1724 export validity certificates by the Food Control Department, the department has dealt with about 245 opportunities for improvement and approval of 30 food cards, issuance of 33 approvals for a new license, issuance of 13 local marketing certificates, and 3022 food shipments have been received through Sharjah city ports.
Controls and precautions
The Director of the Public Health Department, Dr. Amal Al Shamsi, confirmed that the Food Control Department carried out more than 9571 inspection visits during the first quarter of this year and 2316 visits during the month of Ramadan targeting food establishments to ensure their compliance with the required health standards and requirements and their compliance with all preventive measures and measures recently imposed by the municipality. The sites that deliver and transport food have been followed and the employees are warned about the necessity to adhere to cleaning the internal and external surfaces of food preservation and transport units frequently during the day, while adhering to the personal hygiene of the workers and doing the hand washing process on an ongoing basis with the delivery worker wearing gloves and gloves when performing the delivery service and commitment to replace Gloves after each connection.
Al Shamsi explained that the Health Supervision Department carried out more than 7243 inspection visits to hairdressing salons and beauty centers during the first quarter of this year, to ensure that they applied the required health requirements and take the precautionary measures that the municipality obligated them in light of the Corona pandemic, as the municipality does not hesitate to take all The necessary deterrent measures against violators of these measures, in coordination with the Department of Economic Development, and preventive measures include closing the salon or center during the national sterilization period, limiting the services provided to shaving, hairdressing, nail care services and canceling the waiting area, with the need to pre-book when receiving customers And not receiving them in the event that the worker is busy serving another customer, receiving 30% of the absorptive capacity in the shop with the necessity of physical spacing with a distance of no less than two meters between each person and another, and asking the customer to leave the salon as soon as he finishes receiving the service, and it is not allowed to provide the service to the elderly over 60 years and children under 12 years old, it is not allowed to receive customers who have symptoms of cold or flu, to refrain from providing hospitality, and to use One-time-use tools whenever possible with adherence to the protective and hygienic conditions when replacing them, the use of single-use towels, requiring workers to wear masks and gloves, washing and sterilizing hands before and after service, cleaning, disinfection and continuous sterilization of tools, benches and the shop with all its equipment.
Resume work
The Director of the Public Health Department noted that the work in the central slaughterhouse was resumed according to the conditions, controls and preventive measures set by the municipality to provide a safe and secure environment and intensified its efforts during the holiday to receive the sacrifices, as the central slaughterhouse received more than 1085 slaughtered animals, and the municipality also resumed work in the public health clinic in all its branches and in the clinic Veterinary in Jubail, according to preventive measures and procedures to protect workers and auditors.
Sampling analysis
The Director of the Central Labs Department in Sharjah Municipality, Sheikha Dr. Naglaa Ali Al-Mualla announced the analysis of 7162 samples in the municipality lab during the first quarter of this year, which included 2163 samples of a food product in the food laboratory, and 4454 samples to monitor the infrastructure and its products, in addition to soil testing In the building materials laboratory, 196 samples of personal care products and environmental waste in the environment and consumables lab, and 339 samples with the aim of protecting livestock in the veterinary laboratory, noting that the Sharjah City Municipality laboratory is keen on achieving global leadership in tests and analytical procedures and matching its results to the UAE and Gulf standards The global required in microbial and chemical tests to reach the target group and achieve consumer safety.
Remote training program
The head of the Conformity Assessment Department, Sheikha Maha Al Mualla, confirmed that the Conformity Assessment and Health Education Department has transferred all of its procedures to work remotely as it has organized periodic meetings through visual communication to follow the work progress and develop the necessary plans to complete all tasks according to the highest standards, and provide training courses and remote tests The Sharjah Food Safety Program, which is the first of its kind in the field of food, for officials and supervisors working in food establishments to ensure the continuity of following good health practices for food safety, as the number of trainees and examiners in the program reached 3772 workers during the first quarter of the current year, and issuing certificates of application of the food safety system to establishments Food and its employees electronically, in addition to preparing a guide for remote evaluation of private laboratories in the Emirate of Sharjah to monitor the quality of work in them.
Al-Mualla indicated that the Department of Conformity Assessment and Health Education has, since the beginning of the announcement of the outbreak, investigated all information related to it, ways of infection and ways to prevent it, and taken a number of precautionary measures that are in line with the decisions of the Ministry of Health and Community Protection aimed at increasing societal awareness to prevent the transmission of the Corona virus. The newcomer as a fan 19, following up on everything related to it with great accuracy, and broadcasting educational tips and virtual instructions on electronic screens, in addition to constantly raising awareness of all members of society in different languages to communicate them to the largest number of the public, as these messages included educational advice that was published through the municipality's communication sites and in Roads and fields The number of educational messages and paragraphs and educational brochures reached 332 in addition to the various awareness campaigns and exhibitions.
She confirmed the work of a set of questionnaires about the health of employees, especially about their awareness of the Corona virus and the precautionary measures taken during the work period remotely and when returning to the workplace.