Abu Dhabi: Round 20,000 staff in and across the Musaffah area have availed the service of a cooling heart and well being check-up facility, which was organized by Abu Dhabi Police and Abu Dhabi Municipality, in collaboration with Lifecare Hospital, Musaffah, to cater to the wants of laborers within the area working underneath the scorching solar. Lifecare Hospital, a unit of the Abu Dhabi-based Burjeel Holdings, has launched the ‘Have a Wholesome Summer season’ marketing campaign to create consciousness among the many staff within the industrial space concerning the excessive temperatures and the probably hazards they face.
The air-conditioned settle down sales space has a staff of nurses who’re checking the vitals and offering first support to all those that are visiting with indicators of heatstroke. The staff additionally transferred these suspected of getting heatstroke to the hospital for additional therapy. Moreover, the sales space is serving ORS water, water bottles, and different refreshments to the employees to remain hydrated in addition to distributing consciousness materials on how one can beat the warmth.
Not too long ago, when the temperatures soared and the warmth wave hit many components of the area, the sales space was a reduction for blue-collar staff, supply drivers, and taxi drivers who work open air.
As a part of the marketing campaign, which began on August 1, the hospital workers is visiting numerous workplaces to create consciousness and is informing them concerning the precautionary measures to take whereas working in the course of the summer season.
“As a care supplier, our effort is to assist those that work within the excessive warmth.
The settle down sales space is an efficient answer to assist stop heat-related accidents similar to warmth stress, exhaustion, fainting or warmth stroke, and many others. Our settle down sales space, the place the employees can sit and chill out, provide a respite from the warmth. By means of this marketing campaign, we’re taking numerous measures to make the employees in Musaffah extra snug and wholesome in the course of the summer season. We need to spotlight the well being dangers concerned with working in excessive temperatures and the methods folks can implement to guard themselves,” stated Dr. Rakesh Gupta, Deputy Medical Director, LLH Hospital, Musaffah.
The employees can avail the services of the cooling heart from 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, which can run till mid-September.
“I’m glad Lifecare Hospital is organizing such campaigns to assist staff like us. The cooling heart is a blessing as they assist us get some relaxation. The healthcare staff are making us perceive the totally different well being points and precautionary measures that must be taken in the course of the summer season,” stated Kamran Ahmed Sheikh, Well being Security and Setting Supervisor in a non-public firm, who’s utilizing the ability.
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