Vision
Toward a clean, safe and healthy city that enhances quality of life and meets sustainable development standards.
Mission
The Health Section of Dura Municipality contributes to sustainable development through integrated waste management, better environmental and health services, and greater community awareness that protecting the environment is a shared responsibility for a better present and a cleaner future.
The Health Section of Dura Municipality provides public cleaning services to all of the city's residents, with qualified staff and well-equipped vehicles to ensure a healthy and clean environment. Its work is organized as follows:
Vehicles: 5 waste collection vehicles.
Work schedule: 6 shifts a day covering all areas of the city.
Staff: 19 employees, plus a field supervisor.
Waste collected per month: About 1,600 tons.
Waste transferred per year: About 19,200 tons taken to transfer stations.
Equipment:
- 150 metal containers with a capacity of 1,100 liters.
- 40 metal containers with a capacity of 4 cubic meters.
- 200 plastic containers with a capacity of 240 liters.
- Regular maintenance of 90 containers of various sizes.
Staff: 28 employees deployed across the city's main streets.
Tasks:
- Continuously cleaning the areas around public containers.
- Cleaning public and private institutions as needed.
- Cleaning sidewalks and city entrances, and removing illegal dumpsites.
Insect and rodent control: A regular fogging program to control mosquitoes.
Preventive pest control: Providing all types of pesticides for controlling rodents and snakes.
Believing that people are the foundation of development, Dura Municipality's Health Section makes a point of regularly honoring its workers in recognition of their great efforts to keep the city clean and beautiful.
This recognition is part of Dura Municipality's culture, which values field work and believes that Dura's well-known cleanliness is the result of the dedication and commitment that sanitation workers show in their daily work.
