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Report

3 Dec 2019

Author:
Centre for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University Qatar & World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH)

Improving Single Male Laborers’ Health in Qatar

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Key Recommendations:

  1. The gathering of more accurate and robust data collections and data type and a more comprehensive data set...
  2. Strict measures of accountability... to ensure that employers issue Qatar IDs and health cards...
  3. Increased employer awareness about the value of health through their workforce...
  4. Availability of written materials in the workers’ own language stating their rights to a health card and... the health system... 
  5. Importance of supervisors being informed of their duty of care...
  6. Company clinics need to operate along standards established by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), and should complement the services provided by Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) & Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS).
  7. Ensuring that employers are supporting their workers’ access to timely and appropriate healthcare...
  8. Developing health promotion programs.
  9. Developing accessible, adequate, and timely healthcare that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
  10. More frequent and thorough inspections by the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs (MoADLSA).