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Lifeguards given medicines to treat jellyfish

cases

DUBAI - Following the discovery of a new kind of jellyfish at Dubai beaches,
Dubai Municipality has distributed medicines to the lifeguards stationed at the
Jumeirah Beach Park and the Open beach.

By Joy Sengupta

Published: Wed 13 Jun 2007, 8:50 AM
Last updated: Wed 25 Jan 2023, 2:09 PM

While pointing out that the jellyfish were not life-threatening, senior civic officials urged
beach-goers to refrain from going into the sea for the time being.

Ismail Al Banna, assistant director of Public Parks and Horticulture Department, said

soon these the jellyfish will get swept away.

“The Environment Department at the municipality had asked us to prevent swimmers

from going into the sea as a precautionary measure. The municipality is carrying out
checks at the beaches. The Mamzar beach is clean and only parts of Jumeirah Beach
Park and the Open beach are affected by jellyfish. We have asked swimmers not to
swim in those areas. Our lifeguards are alerting and guiding the swimmers,” he said.

Al Banna added that presently there were thousands of jellyfish at the beaches. “We
cannot remove all of them as the number is very high. But those which have washed
ashore are being removed. The ones present in the water would soon disappear.
Though these jelly fishes are not deadly, they can cause some itching when touched.
We have provided some basic medicines to our lifeguards so that people with problems

could seek immediate treatment,” he pointed out.

Meanwhile Mohammed Abdur Rehman Hasan, head of the Marine Environment and
Sanctuary Unit at the municipality, said the unit has got all the documentation with
regard to the different species of marine life. “We do have the records with us. If we

don’t know about a particular kind of species, we conduct a study to know details,” he
said.

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