The Ministry Of Health Announces The Readiness Of Its Plan For The Electoral Process

Buthaina Al-Mudhaf, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Public Health Affairs, confirmed that the central work team in charge of setting up the preparation, follow-up and supervision plan for health services provided by the Ministry during the election period completed its preparations according to the highest levels of readiness. The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad reviewed the preparations made By the Ministry of Health for the electoral process.

Dr. Al-Mudhaf said in a press statement that the ministry’s role comes within a homogeneous and integrated government team concerned with supervising the electoral process, both in its position and in its field, with the aim of ensuring that the electoral process proceeds comfortably and smoothly and in a manner that preserves the security and safety of the citizen, whether he is a candidate, a voter, or those who supervise the organization of the process. Electoral.

l-Mudhaf explained that the Ministry took the initiative to form a central work team in accordance with Administrative Resolution No. 5105 of 2020 issued by the Undersecretary, Dr. Mustafa Reda, and he is specialized in setting up a plan to prepare, follow up and supervise the health services provided by the Ministry of Health during the election period, where the central work team is headed by the Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Affairs and the membership of the Director of the Infection Prevention Department Dr. Ahmed Al-Mutawa and the Director of the Public Health Department Dr. Fahd Al-Ghamlas and the Director of the Nutrition and Food Department Dr. . Nawal Al-Quoud, Director of the Primary Health Care Department, Dr. Dina Al-Dhabib, the Director of the Medical Emergency Department, Mr. Munther Al-Jalahma, and the Director of the Nursing Services Department, Ms. Sanaa Taqam.

Al-Mudhaf indicated that the central team and within the framework of the Ministry’s keenness to integrate health services, and in the pursuit of the highest degree of precaution and in order to provide the best means of care, three field teams emanate from it, including the treatment team, the preventive and nutritional team, and the auxiliary services team, and each team is assigned specific tasks.

Dr. Al-Mudhaf explained that according to the administrative decision organizing the work of the central work team, the tasks entrusted to the treatment team include providing medical, nursing and paramedics staff at polling sites in all districts, equipping clinics with medical equipment and supplies in each polling station, and addressing public hospitals and the Central Blood Bank to prepare in anticipation of any Emergency, while the preventive and food team is mandated to form traffic work teams at all polling stations and inspect the meals provided. The auxiliary services team is concerned with providing all non-medical administrative needs, and following up on correspondence with field teams.

Al-Mudhaf emphasized the ministry’s keenness to make Corona virus swabs for those organizing the electoral process and to ensure that they are free of the virus.

For his part, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad, reviewed the preparations made by the Ministry of Health in preparation for the electoral process that comes under global, regional and local conditions different from previous years, based on the current health situation of the outbreak of Covid-19 disease, which in turn requires imposing Some precautionary measures and measures were not used in the past in order to preserve the health and safety of citizens.

In the framework of the ministry’s plan, which was prepared, the bond stated that a clinic equipped for cases requiring immediate medical intervention will be allocated in each polling station, with 107 clinics in addition to an isolation room to deal with cases that are preparing for preventive isolation.

He explained that the medical personnel participating in the efforts to follow up the electoral process will include 114 male and female nurses, 558 emergency medical technicians and 47 ambulances, in addition to health inspectors, infection prevention team, uterine inspectors, and primary health care physicians, parallel to the operations department in the Medical Emergency Department to receive reports and communicate With other emergency agencies and the Civil Defense Committee.

He stressed the need to be careful on polling day and adhere to the precautionary measures not to gather inside and outside the polling stations, to maintain safe distances between others at a distance of no less than two meters between the voter and the other, not to shake hands or touch surfaces other than necessary, and to inform one of the officials in charge of organizing the electoral process in case you are You suffer from high temperatures or some symptoms such as coughing or sneezing, in order to take the necessary measures to preserve your health and the health of all those present.

In conclusion, he renewed the reminder of the precautionary measures before and after the polling, including the necessity to wear masks, cover the nose and mouth, disinfect hands with hand sanitizers, wear gloves, check and measure temperature before entering, adhere to the specified path for voters to enter the polling station until reaching the specified committee, and take down the masks in the correct way for a moment when checking your identity Putting the ballot paper yourself in the specified box, adhering to the specified exit path, removing gloves and disposing of them in the designated place for that, taking care to disinfect hands with hand sanitizer afterwards, asking God to protect everyone from all harm, and for the electoral process to proceed smoothly and safely.

 

SOURCE: ALRAIMEDIA

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