Report
Improving Single Male Laborers’ Health in Qatar
Key Recommendations:
- The gathering of more accurate and robust data collections and data type and a more comprehensive data set...
- Strict measures of accountability... to ensure that employers issue Qatar IDs and health cards...
- Increased employer awareness about the value of health through their workforce...
- Availability of written materials in the workers’ own language stating their rights to a health card and... the health system...
- Importance of supervisors being informed of their duty of care...
- 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).
- Ensuring that employers are supporting their workers’ access to timely and appropriate healthcare...
- Developing health promotion programs.
- Developing accessible, adequate, and timely healthcare that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
- More frequent and thorough inspections by the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs (MoADLSA).