Al-DHALEA April 18, 2024 (Saba) - A meeting held today in Al-Dhalea Governorate, headed by the Acting Governor Abdul Latif Al-Shaghdari, discussed procedures for implementing emergency interventions to reduce the damage caused by floods in the governorate and the districts.
The meeting, which included the governorate's emergency committee, discussed mechanisms for providing and renting equipment and trucks to carry out the work of opening damaged roads and ferries and erecting preventive barriers and retaining walls to protect agricultural lands that were exposed to erosion.
The meeting approved the formation of operations rooms and field committees from the offices of agriculture, zakat, relevant authorities, and the agricultural committee to go on the field to the directorates to supervise and follow up on the implementation of emergency works, determine the paths and extensions of their work, and follow up on the potential repercussions on an ongoing basis to preserve roads, public property, and residential neighborhoods that may be affected by the continuation of the Rainfall.
At the meeting, Al-Shaghdari stressed the importance of field visits to the directorates to survey the damage and begin implementing emergency works to limit any potential damage before the arrival of the rainy season and floods, especially in the homes on the edge of Wadi Banna in Damt city and the rest of the old housing inhabited by citizens and which are at risk.
He stressed the need for coordination between the agricultural offices in the directorates, the executive unit, the agricultural committee, zakat, civil defense, the Red Crescent branch, and local authorities to provide and operate equipment and work teams, and to give priority to the most affected areas.
Al-Shaghdari directed the Works, Communications, and Water Office and the Projects Unit to begin draining floodwaters, opening canals and ferries, and submitting emergency plans that include providing equipment and field teams in coordination with civil defense.
The meeting also reviewed the report of the Office of Public Health and Epidemiological Surveillance for patients with acute watery diarrhea.
Al-Shaghdari stressed the need to strengthen private and governmental health and humanitarian organizations to achieve effective intervention in reducing the spread of watery diarrhea disease and providing solutions to case reception centers in various directorates.
He urged the Health Office to follow up in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Population to provide medicines and solutions and enhance community awareness of ways to prevent the disease.
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resource : Saba
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