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As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves and schools reopen, greater Halifax/Dartmouth’s YMCA has hired a health, quality and compliance officer to maintain the network and protect itself from the new coronavirus.
Yasmin Mukhtar took over the new one on 20 August.
“Our YMCA remains committed to the fitness and protection of our staff, volunteers, participants, members and consumers, and this has never been more in this COVID-19 environment,” Lorrie Turnbull, executive director of YMCA, said in a press release.
“We are very convinced that Yasmin has assumed this role in this critical juncture of our history.”
Before arriving in Canada nearly a year ago, Mukhtar was a physician in the family circle for more than nine years, as well as the head of the infection control committee and the doctor at the King Abdulaziz Medical City coronavirus clinic in Saudi Arabia.The MERS epidemic.
She is also a cell crisis employee at the YMCA Immigrant Program Center.
In his new role, Mukhtar will conduct on-site visits and audits to ensure that YMCA staff, volunteers, and customers comply with existing protection and fitness protocols and that YM facilities are well and sanitized.
It will also update the organization’s operational plans and policies on public aptitude recommendations as the COVID-19 scenario evolves.
With schools back in consultation this month, Mukhtar will take the organization to bring the YMCA YPHD program, which is a pre- and post-school program for children, to be delivered in accordance with public fitness rules and to coincide with COVID-19.operational plans in schools.
Reflecting on his new role, Mukhtar called it a “great initiative” through the YMCA to introduce a position in VOCD-19 to prioritize community fitness and protection.
“I am blessed to be part of this team and am pleased to be able to take all of mys beyond pleasure in this domain to help maintain the main criteria that have been demonstrated through the YMCA and, of course, to ensure the protection of all.during COVID-19, ” he said.