All cadres are examined regularly.

Mahmoud Mohsen, Staff Reporter

Ahmed Ali Al Nayadi, director of the National Screening Centre from the vehicle in the Emirate of Sharjah, confirmed taking several precautionary and preventive measures regarding ensuring the safety and health of medical, technical and administrative cadres at the centre during the examining of people, most notably conducting an examination for them every 5 days.

Al Nayadi clarified that a periodic examination is conducted for all cadres working in the centre, and several measures are taken such as replacing gloves and face masks with each examination, with the necessity of washing hands from time to time, whether for those who raise samples or administrators, in addition to commitment to leave the safety distance during speaking and examination procedures.

Al Nayadi stated there are a number of containers for general waste available in the centre, and another for medical waste.

He added, “Cleaners take turns during working hours to empty them in a room designated for medical waste, closed tightly, to ensure the safety of the centre’s employees. At the end of the day, waste disposal operations are carried out through the vehicles of the ‘Weqaya’ company, which is concerned with passing daily to remove medical waste from the centre and safely disposing it.”

Al Nayadi assured Al Khaleej that the tasks of the cadres do not end with the end of official and specific working hours until 6pm, but there are other tasks which they perform before departure, such as collecting samples and preparing them according to the data of the examiners, in preparation for sending them to the main laboratory, which decides the positive or negative cases, and reporting the results in 3-5 days.

Al Nayadi indicated that persons from different age groups are increasing with a remarkable presence of the elderly, pointing out that the centre is about to register the full number of absorptive capacity, which amounts to 400 people per day, since the start of the checks and registrations in the emirate.