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Dubai Municipality has announced the preparedness of its abattoirs to meet the rush of customers during Eid Al-Adhaby carrying out an integrated maintenance plan for its abattoirs and equipping them with all tools necessary to ensure delivering flexible, quick, and high-safety services. Additionally, the Municipality offered the possibility of ordering, buying and preparing livestock, and getting them home delivered through smart apps.

To accommodate the increased demand over the Eid period, Dubai Municipality has allotted its four abattoirs with the newest technology with a combined capacity of almost 900 animals per hour. These slaughterhouses include Al Qusais Abattoir (282 animals), Quick Eid Abattoir in Al Qusais (300), Al Quoz Abattoir (125), Al Lisaili Abattoir (105), and Hatta Abattoir (82 animals per hour).

Adel AlKarrani, Acting Director of the Public Health Services Department in Dubai Municipality, reaffirmed the Municipality’s keenness to equip its abattoirs with the most up-to-date tools and machines that adhere to internationally recognized health standards in order to offer customers the best and fastest high-quality services during the Eid Al-Adha days.

In order to ensure the safety of community members and their families, to improve the quality of life and well-being of all residents and visitors to the Emirate of Dubai, he emphasized that the Municipality is committed to applying the highest public health conditions in providing the sacrificed animals prepared in a clean and healthy environment.

Al-Karrani said: “Dubai Municipality has implemented a comprehensive and integrated plan that included preventive maintenance and improvement as well as expansion works to increase the capacity of abattoirs, with the aim of ensuring their efficient operation, in order to provide an excellent experience to the customers and reducing their time and effort.”

The abattoirs’ capacity was increased as part of a comprehensive and integrated strategy by the Dubai Municipality that included preventative and improvement maintenance work as well as expansion projects. This ensured that the abattoirs operated well, gave consumers a unique experience, and saved them time and effort.”

The maintenance work included expanding the Hatta Abattoir to double its capacity and carrying out the preventative and improvement maintenance work in Al Quoz and Al Qusaisabattoirs, as well as modifications to the production lines to increase capacity and speed up the process of preparing the sacrificial animals and carrying out the maintenance work of all equipment of the abattoirs to reduce waiting time for customers during the Eid period. Training workshops were also held for all abattoir workers, to ensure the application of all healthy and sound practices in the abattoirs

Smart Applications

Abattoirs run by Dubai Municipality work with 8 authorized smart applications to order and deliver sacrificed animals. In addition to coordinating with other apps to offer discounts to the users during the Eid period, the apps offer a variety of services that satisfy users’ needs and preferences of sacrifices prepared in the Municipality’s abattoirs in accordance with approved health procedures and deliver them to their homes quickly and efficiently.

Abattoirs’ working hours during the Eid

The working hours of the abattoirs during Eid have been set by Dubai Municipality.On the Arafa day it will be from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm in the abattoirs of Al Qusais, Al Quoz, and Al Lisaili; and from 7:00 am to 6:00 am in Hatta abattoir; while on the first, second and third days of Eid, they will all be open from 7:30 am to 4:00 am