COVID-19: Here’s how Musandam is dealing with the outbreak of the pandemic in Oman

Muscat: The Directorate General of Health Services -Musandam Governorate (DGHS-Musandam) has taken many preventive measures by raising public awareness about the nature, transmission, and prevention of the disease.

In a statement, the DGHS said, “A work team holds a daily meeting to follow-up on the global and local epidemiological situation of COVID-19 and discuss the latest developments of the virus and the precautionary measures.”

“The DGHS-Musandam has formed field teams to monitor the arrivals across the entry points (land, sea, and air) by applying the self-declaration mechanism issued by the Directorate General of Diseases Surveillance & Control (DGDSC) of the Ministry of Health along with accounting the arrivals coming from different countries and dealing with each person separately.”

Khasab Hospital has allocated a private entrance to triage the cases, reduce the patients contacting and organize the entry process into the health institutions. A hotline has been activated to communicate with the Governorate's individuals and answer their queries, the statement added.

“Institutional isolation places have been turned over to the Relief and Shelter Sector with all essential services for the isolated persons. Field teams of the health institutions are following-up on the health condition of the isolated persons. In addition, a laboratory device to detect COVID-19 has been provided at Khasab Hospital. “