Statistics from Al-Ahsa Municipality, represented by the Services Agency “General Administration of Environmental Health,” indicated that the months of January and February of the current year 2023 witnessed the implementation of the procedures followed to issue and renew 2,043 electronic health certificates for workers in public health activities outlets, in addition to issuing 2,476 health education certificates, and conducting 503 examinations. To trace the sources of meat through the “Wathiq” program.
While during the scheduled plan to disinfect and sterilize “swamp” water bodies and combat public health pests, 170 liters of insecticides were sprayed in 90 locations in cities, towns, and villages, with this intensified during periods of rain.
The municipality stressed that the mechanism (detecting public health pests) is carried out according to scheduled programs to control the main factors that help in the spread and multiplication of pests by various means and methods that do not negatively affect the environment, whether in neighborhoods served by the sewage network or in other neighborhoods where this service does not exist. While the control work was divided into 5 sectors at the metropolitan level to implement 3 steps for spraying pesticides, including (spraying by thermal fog, surface spray, and micro-spray).