Tuesday, 01 January 2013
DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health and the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning are working on a joint strategy to control food borne diseases and diseases transmitted by workers at barber shops and beauty salons. Two joint meetings were held with this objective recently.
Dr Mohammad Al Hajri, Director of Health Protection and Communicable Diseases Control at SCH underlined the need for setting up a joint mechanism to control food borne diseases and to apply training programmes for the workers in the related fields.
Staff from seven municipalities, who are working in this field will receive four months training on disease control measures, he added.
Dr Osman Tamim, Public Health Specialist at SCH pointed out that food borne diseases are one of the biggest public health issues locally and globally.
"It is important to develop multi-systems solutions with direct participation of monitoring, surveillance, control, and risk analysis systems to enhance the prevention of these diseases," said Tamim. Dr Al Mobasher Abu Bakr, Supervisor of Communicable Diseases Control outlined the objectives of the training project that aims to equip the targeted groups with required skills and experiences.
This will be achieved through workshops, field visits and health education. A database will be developed to help in applying the ways of disease control.
In the same context, the Health Protection and Communicable Diseases Control Department conducted a separate meeting with the related departments at the municipalities on barber shops and beauty salons.
The meeting discussed the training programme and the ways of increasing the capabilities of controlling and preventing communicable diseases transmitted by workers of such facilities.
The programme aims to control the communicable diseases, particularly diseases transmitted through blood (Epidemic Hepatitis and AIDS), through barber shops, beauty salons and health clubs.
The programme also aims to prepare a unified training guide for workers of all barber shops and beauty salons and improve their work environment. That will help reduce the possible epidemic diseases and enhance the workers' awareness. Accordingly, those workers will get four months training course from January to April 2013.
© The Peninsula 2013
