Dubai Health Authority began using smart robots to sterilize hospitals and health centers within its precautionary measures to enhance the safety of employees and auditors of its health facilities, coinciding with the complete return to provide all diagnostic and treatment services to patients.
The director of projects and the leader of the future team at the Dubai Health Authority, Kholoud Abdullah Al Ali, said that the authority started using eight smart robots to perform UV sterilization operations for all rooms and corridors in its health facilities, as part of its continuous efforts to adopt the latest technologies and smart systems in its operations and procedures in line with its strategic plans To keep abreast of global developments in the field of artificial intelligence.
Al Ali explained the multiple advantages of the UV robot, which is its ability to move automatically without the need for human intervention, and to ensure greater and better coverage of areas touching and with a 360 degree range, with the ability to repeat the same process with high accuracy several times, and to adopt certain criteria to sterilize all rooms with reporting To demonstrate the implementation of sterilization, in addition to the ease of using the technology in the cleaning routine and daily sterilization with large areas and speeds ranging from 10-15 minutes to sterilize one room, which contributes to reducing infection and improving health care within health facilities.
She stressed the importance of this technology that can be used to sterilize many places such as: offices, hospital rooms and corridors, operating rooms, warehouses, housing units, and other places.
Al Ali reviewed the great efforts and attention paid by the Dubai Health Authority to provide all safety measures and precautionary measures within its hospitals and health and specialized centers to avoid the transmission of infection in light of the complete return to receive patients and auditors.