Firms urged to enroll workers for free dental health

The Permanent Committee for Labour's Affairs in Dubai (PCLA) has called on all companies based in Dubai to coordinate with PCLA for their workers to undergo dental screening and treatment as part of the Hamdan Bin Mohammad College of Dental Medicine on Oral Hygiene initiative.

Major-General Obaid Muhair Bin Surour, Deputy Director of the General Directorate for Residency and Foreigners' Affairs in Dubai and Head of the PCLA, said on Monday that the committee is keen to follow up on workers' health and wellbeing because they are one of the main assets of the country's economies and developments.

"We want workers to be happy and healthy and for that reason we will follow up on them and we will do our best to make their life easy and comfortable," he said.

Major-General Bin Surour said that more than 2,000 workers are expected to undergo screening and treatment before the end of this year.

According to Abdul Monem Al Medawi, coordinator of Labor Committee in Dubai, companies are requested to immediately contact the PCLA on 04/707500 in order to arrange for their workers to undergo dental screening.

"We are taking workers for their dental treatment every Sunday and Wednesday," he said.

He said that the committee already sent 150 workers for dental screening and treatment.

"We want full co-operation from companies who can contact the PCLA at any time in this regard," he said.

The initiative was organised by the Hamdan Bin Mohammad College of Dental Medicine, under the patronage of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, in tandem with the Permanent Committee of Labour Affairs. It aims at improving oral hygiene for workers.

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