MUSCAT: As part of the continuing efforts of the Ministry of Health (MOH) to curb the COVID-19, His Excellency Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Saidi, Minister of Health visited Al Nahda Hospital, COVID-19 Data Management Center and Sector of Medical Response & Public Health on Thursday.
The visit aimed to view all the precautionary measures that have been taken and ascertained if they had been implemented according to the approved plan for the public health emergency response for the COVID-19 outbreak.
During the Minister’s visit to Al-Nahda Hospital, Al-Saidi briefed on the various preventive measures followed in the Hospital including receiving and examining patients, especially the cases with COVID-19 in the emergency unit, as well as the admission and follow-up process. In addition, the visit included the admission wards, where the Minister met the medical staff and a number of the admitted patients.
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The Minister visited the COVID-19 Data Management Center in Muscat Governorate to look at the Center’s different works including the process of monitoring and reporting the disease and entering all data in the “Tarassud” application that has been developed for this purpose.
Thereafter, the Minister of Health headed to Emergency Management Center to view the progress of work in the Medical Response & Public Health Sector, the developments of the epidemiological situation of the virus locally and regionally along with the mechanism of sectoral response in dealing with various scenarios that may occur.
Al-Saidi praised the effective role of the health workers during the COVID-19 outbreak, indicating the significant efforts exerted by all medical groups in various specializations despite the lack of support.
The minister has urged all health professionals to adhere to the precautionary measures and follow the instructions issued by the Ministry of Health, in which protecting the medical cadre is on the top priorities of the Ministry.
In addition, the Minister also praised the words of thanks from the citizens and residents for the health workers in social media. He also pointed out that His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik follows with great interest in this crisis.
