MoH: Three health centres in Dhofar to re-open after storm closures

Merge 104.8  |  01 June 2020

Oman’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced the re-opening of a number of clinics and health centres in Dhofar which were previously order to close and transfer their services to safer sites amid ongoing heavy rains and flooding resulting from a tropical low-pressure system battering the governorate.

Cover photo credit: Ministry of Health

In a statement issued online today [Monday, June 1], the MoH has confirmed that the El Jadida Health Center, the Daheeryz Health Center, and the Kabut Health Center, have all resumed normal operations as of today.

A tropical depression which made landfall in Dhofar on Friday [May 29] has seen between 100-200 mm of rain, along with high winds and thunderstorms cause widespread flooding and damage to property and roads throughout low-lying and coastal areas of the governorate.

(Also read: Oman: Tropical weather front over Dhofar to decline from Monday evening.)