DOHA: The municipalities in the country are exchanging their inspection staff and retaining them for three months in a measure eventually aimed to unify the field inspection system across the eight municipalities.
The inspectors being exchanged from yesterday will work in the other municipality until June 15, 2015 and will need to file regular reports on work and experiences.
The exchange program being experimented for the first time, includes inspection staff from various departments of the municipalities — general monitoring, food monitoring and health and hygiene monitoring.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning yesterday, the exchange programme and its schedule were discussed at a workshop in which all municipalities took part.
Meanwhile, the Beaches and Islands Department of the ministry has announced that it has cleaned up all beaches in the country.
The health monitoring section of Doha Municipality conducted 243 raids on outlets in its jurisdiction and registered 32 violations between March 8 and 12. They also registered violations of health and hygiene rules by three beauty parlours.
The general monitoring section of the ministry raided illegal vendors on Street 47 in the Industrial Area and caught 10, the statement added.
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