The Director General of Civil Defense in Dubai, Major General Rashid Thani Al Matroushi, revealed the completion of sterilization operations for 75% of Dubai's areas of high density, pointing out that the civil defense teams continued preventive sterilization operations around the clock, efficiently and effectively.

He said that the fire index in the emirate decreased during last March by 79%, compared to last February, which preceded sterilization operations.

He also stressed the readiness of the civil defense to deal with any accidents, without the new circumstances adversely affecting the results and quality of services.

In detail, Al-Matroushi said that the buildings inspection teams carried out during the last two weeks 813 inspection missions, with the inspectors adhering to the requirements of protection and individual safety while carrying out their duties, while 770 transactions were carried out to approve engineering plans, and 438 transactions to accredit companies remotely, in addition to preparing and publishing a number of videos To raise awareness of the importance of adhering to the conditions of health protection from the epidemic.

He added: «While the fire and rescue teams in the civil defense centers continue their field and administrative tasks around the clock, the administration was keen to provide a healthy and preventive environment for them through the formation of an epidemiological investigation team, under the supervision of the Director-General, to monitor the injured and contacts in the event of symptoms of infection in any of the Affiliates, referring them to the relevant authorities in the Dubai Health Authority, and following up on their situation daily, in addition to intensifying awareness campaigns related to the virus among military and civilian employees.

Al-Matroushi explained that «the preventive measures included installing thermal cameras in front of the entrances of the civil defense centers, to ensure the safety of employees from the symptoms of the virus, and the allocation of a safety officer to each of the fire stations to follow the preventive measures, and allocating one entrance to the building of each center to ensure the ease of health assessment and preventive sterilization, and obligating Affiliates using masks and sterilizers, and conducting periodic inspection during delivery and receipt, taking care to continuously sterilize the departments and facilities of the center twice a week, and ensure that cars and personal protection devices are sterilized continuously.

Al-Matroushi pointed out that the civil defense, as a member of the committees of the emergency management and local crises, takes specific tasks in the national strategy to combat the emerging corona virus, as the civil defense teams implemented efficiently and effectively preventive sterilization operations in dozens of major sites, economic, service and residential with high population density, in hours Day and night, and the proportion of sterile areas exceeded 75% of the density areas.

He added that the participating teams visited 490 residences for workers to ensure the availability of conditions for prevention and safety from the threat of the Corona virus emerging in it, in addition to sterilizing sites, spreading preventive awareness among workers, developing posters to identify requirements for protection from the transmission of the virus in their places of residence, and teaching them hygiene skills that protect them from Infection and prevent the spread of the epidemic.

Al-Matroushi said that the number of beneficiaries of the preventive measures amounted to 161,977 workers.

Securing the field hospital

Major General Rashid Thani Al-Matroushi revealed that the Civil Defense has secured tents to inspect people inside private vehicles to make sure they do not have the disease, by manpower and a mechanism that works around the clock.

A division of the Civil Defense is also stationed permanently to secure the largest hospital in the Middle East and the Gulf for those infected with the emerging coronavirus, located in the World Trade Center.

79%

The percentage of decrease in the fire index in the emirate last March.