New Orders from the Sarajevo Canton Civil Protection Headquarters

SARAJEVO, (Patria) - At today's second regular session, the Sarajevo Canton Civil Protection Headquarters, among other things, analyzed the current situation in the Canton caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. 

Measures and activities undertaken so far by the Headquarters and all cantonal administrative bodies, institutions, and other legal entities in implementing the orders of competent civil protection headquarters were reviewed.

On this occasion, the KS Civil Protection Headquarters issued the following orders:

• Continuous disinfection of all residential entrances and common areas of residential buildings in the Sarajevo Canton is ordered. The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and Environmental Protection of KS, through property managers, is tasked with implementing this order.

This order takes effect on the day it is issued.

• The Cantonal Civil Protection Administration is ordered to distribute 500 liters of available alcohol (75%), a donation from Sarajevska pivara d.d., in equal proportions, 100 liters each, for the needs of the University Clinical Center Sarajevo (KCUS), the KS Institute of Emergency Medical Aid, the JU "General Hospital prim.dr Abdulah Nakaš", the KS Health Center JU, and the KJP Veterinary Station Sarajevo. 

The Cantonal Civil Protection Administration is tasked with implementing this order. This order takes effect on the day it is issued.

• The KS Commodity Reserves Directorate is ordered to allocate all available quantities of protective masks, gloves, gowns, and caps from its reserves and make them available to the KS Civil Protection Headquarters. The Civil Protection Headquarters of KS will then distribute all available quantities according to priorities. The KS Commodity Reserves Directorate and the Cantonal Civil Protection Administration are tasked with implementing this order.

This order takes effect on the day it is issued.

In order to implement the decision on distributing packages with food and hygiene items, the Cantonal Civil Protection Operational Center has once again informed the municipal headquarters that they were obliged to submit lists with the names of persons over 65 years of age or persons in a state of social need.

They remind that all municipal headquarters must submit updated lists by tonight at the latest, so that volunteers, in cooperation with the Civil Protection Headquarters, the Red Cross, and the Center for Social Work, can begin distributing packages to this vulnerable category of the population. The KS Civil Protection Headquarters also handed over equipment necessary for the work of KJKP Pokop d.o.o. Sarajevo today.