Fire safety law | Nursing homes required to be equipped with fire control room

Nursing homes must be equipped with a fire control room, according to the recently approved fire safety law.
Recntly, the Second Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL) had another meeting to discuss the fire safety law which lawmakers approved in November last year.
Members of the Second Standing Committee asked about the number of buildings which currently do not have fire control rooms and will need to have one, according to the law.
The bill proposes that even low-rise and mid-rise buildings used as nursing homes for the elderly or as tutoring schools must set up a fire control room.
Some members of the Second Standing Committee expressed worries that some nursing homes are located on the ground floor and may not have the conditions to set up a fire control room.
According to Chan Chak Mo, chairman of the Second Standing Committee, the government is currently considering exempting ground floor properties from the requirement to have a fire control room.
Macau currently has approximately 70 companies qualified to install fire protection systems and to provide maintenance services to such facilities. JZ