Muscat: Companies and private institutions may use their employees' accommodation for the institutional health isolation according to the specific conditions and controls, the Government Communication Centre (GC) announced on Thursday.
A statement issued online by Government Communication Centre (GC), said, "Companies and private institutions may use their employees accommodation for the institutional health isolation according to the following conditions:
1. Providing accommodation service for institutional quarantine for a period of seven days according to the requirements issued by the Ministry of Health (single room with toilet).
2. Provide catering services for daily basic meals for the isolated worker at the place of residence in disposable tolls for all meals.
3. Provide a laundry service
4. Providing transportation or contracting with the Omani Transportation Company Mwasalat or any other company to transport the worker coming from Muscat International Airport to the company's isolation site and at the company's account.
5. Allocating a specific place at the company's isolation site to conduct the second PCR test and removing the bracelet at the company's account by coordinating with one of the private health institutions accredited by the General Directorate of Private Health institutions of the Ministry of Health to conduct the PCR test and provide the licensing from the system (Tarassud).
6. Determine the actual number of vacant rooms in the isolation site proposed by the company and it's capacity in accordance with the requirements of health institutions.
7. The cleanliness of the room in the institution's health isolation and the surrounding environment, with an appropriate way for storing and transporting garbage at the isolation site (closed garbage container/way of proper waste disposal).
8. Providing a transportation to serve the isolated worker working in emergency health cases during their stay with one of the approved private health institutions (a vehicle designated for transporting emergency cases).
9. Commitment to providing precautionary sanitary tools (masks + disinfectants + cleaning materials + alcohol sterilizers).
10. Installing devices (Rassed) from the company (E mushrif) at the company's account.
11. Allocating a separate reception desk at the institutional health isolation site to manage the isolation site.
12. Installing thermal cameras at the main entrances to places of health institutional isolation.
13. Submit a request for approval to the Directorate General of Social Development in the governorate, the supervisor of the relief and shelter sector in order to use a health isolation site belonging to the company.
14. Obtaining approval from the technical work team represented by the Royal Oman Police, the medical response sector, public health, and the relief and shelter sector in the governorate after field visit.
15. Providing security escorts by security and safety personnel and with the commitment to submit a periodic report.
16. Install surveillance devices (cameras) at the entrances to the isolation site."
