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Agreement Inked for Expanding Special Care Baby Unit Project in Ibra Hospital Muscat, 23 Aug (ONA) ---- The Ministry of Health represented by the Directorate General of Specialized Medical Care signed today at the Ministry's headquarters an agreement with Al Jisr Charitable Foundation to fund the expansion of Special Care Baby Unit project in Ibra Hospital with a cost of RO 250,000. The agreement was signed by Dr. Fatima Mohammed Al Ajmi, Undersecretary of Health Ministry for Administrative, Planning, and Financial Affairs and Nouf Al Hosni from Al Jisr Foundation. Dr. ...

Water Projects in North A'Sharqiyah Cost More Than RO 143mIbra, 7 Jun (ONA) ---- Nama Water Services Company has said that the total cost of managing the water services sector in the Governorate of North A’Sharqiyah stood at more than RO 143 million.The cost quoted by Nama includes existing projects and projects under construction, as well as "small, medium and large development" projects and the annual cost of water tanker contracts.Qais Saud Al Zakwani, CEO of Nama Water Services Company, told Oman News Agency (ONA) that 26,035 subscribers benefit from water networks at North ...

North Al Sharqiyah Municipal Council Reviews Municipal, Development Projects in Governorate Ibra, 30 May (ONA) --- The Municipal Council of North Al Sharqiyah Governorate today held its 5th meeting for 2023 under the chairmanship of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Al Shamsi, Governor of North Al Sharqiyah, Chairman of the Council. The meeting discussed the matter of providing fiber optics services in residential areas in the Wilayat of Wadi Bani Khalid. It also reviewed the matter of increasing car accidents in the Wilayat of Al Mudhaibi, among other topics. The council proposed several ...

Transport Ministry Highlights National Programme for Digital Economy in Ibra Ibra, 16 May (ONA) --- Two separate meeting were held here today between Dr. Ali Amer Al Shidhani, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology for Communications and Information Technology with students of the University of Technology and Applied Sciences (UTAS) at Ibra and students of A’Sharqiyah University. During the meetings, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology reviewed the Executive Programme for Artificial Intelligence ...

Municipal Council of North A’Sharqiyah Addresses Development Topics Ibra, 28 Feb (ONA) ---- The Municipal Council of the Governorate of North A’Sharqiyah today discussed a set of development topics, including the maintenance of the road linking the wilayats of Ibra and Dima Wa Al Taeen. The second meeting of the council also reviewed a number of requests and proposals submitted by the members of the Council on various topics. --- Ends/AH ...

North Al Sharqiyah Municipal Council Holds Meeting Ibra, 31 Jan (ONA) --- The Municipal Council of North Al Sharqiyah Governorate held a meeting today under the chairmanship of Sheikh Ali Ahmed Al Shamsi, Governor of North Al Sharqiyah., Chairman of the council. The meeting discussed the strategy of action of municipal councils and specializations of the council in accordance with the Municipal Councils Law. Further, deputies were elected for the standing committees of the council. The meeting resulted in several recommendations. Moreover, several matters were tasked to the ...

Members of Municipal Council in North A’Sharqiyah Take Oath of OfficeIbra, 4 Jan (ONA) --- Members of the Municipal Council of North A’Sharqiyah today took the oath of office before Sheikh Ali Ahmed Al Shamsi, Governor of North A’Sharqiyah and Chairman of the council, in implementation of Article 14 of the Municipal Councils Law. During the meeting, a Deputy Chairman was elected electronically by the members, who used “Tanmia” app, which was recently launched by the Ministry of Interior. The meeting also saw the formation of standing committees, which were the Legal Affairs ...

Fifty Centuries-old Settlement Unearthed in Al Mudhaibi Al Mudhaibi, 3 Jan (ONA)—As result of a second season of antiquary excavations in the archaeological site of Al Gharyein in the Wilayat of Al Mudhaibi, A’Sharqiyah North Governorate, exploratory teams unearthed a 5,000-year-old settlement. This discovery was the outcome of joint cooperation between Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) and the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism. The excavation team was headed by Dr. Nasser Said Al Jahwari, Professor in the Department of Archaeology at the SQU College of Arts and Social ...

Agreements Worth More Than RO 3.5 Million Inked for Service Projects in North A’Sharqiyah Ibra, 2 Nov (ONA)—The Office of Governor of North A’Sharqiyah today signed 17 agreements to the tune of RO 3,533,000 to the implementation of service and development projects in the wilayats of the governorate. The agreements include the preparation of designs and studies for road projects, illumination, consultancy, construction projects, supply and installation of service utilities, among others. The agreements were signed by Sheikh Ali Ahmed Al Shamsi, Governor of ...

Team Tasked with Survey for Disease Vectors in North A’Sharqiyah Begins Field Action Ibra, 16 Oct (ONA) --- The team of the Comprehensive National Survey for Vector Borne Diseases of the General Directorate of Health Services in North A’Sharqiyah Governorate today started its field action in several locations. The team’s mission aims to promote and protect the health of individuals and the society from vector borne diseases. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Busaidi, Director General of Health Services in North A’Sharqiyah Governorate, said that the specialized health team will ...

Labour Ministry Conducts “Tamkin-Sahim” Empowerment Programme in North A’Sharqiyah Ibra, 24 Jul (ONA)—A training programme (codenamed “Tamkin-Sahim”) for the empowerment of youth wishing to take up government jobs was conducted by the Ministry of Labour in the Governorate of North A’Sharqiyah. The five-day course is the second leg of a training programme targeting 2,216 job candidates who passed interviews and tests from different governorates of the Sultanate. It seeks to raise the volume of productivity in the workplace (for government job candidates, among them ...

Twenty-Eight Usufruct Agreements Inked in North A’SharqiyahIbra, 29 Jun (ONA) --- The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning today signed 28 land development (usufruct) agreements in the agricultural, livestock and industrial sectors in the Governorate of North A’Sharqiyah.The agreements, signed with small and medium enterprises (SMEs), worth RO 2.670 million whose projects will be set up on a total area of 980,000 sqm.The agreements aim to provide lands through the usufruct system to contribute to the economy, boost investment, upgrade the quality of sustainability by utilizing ...