...A report of the Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit and Vital Signs says that more than 80 per cent of migrant workers from South Asia do not have access to health care in Kuwait. Vital Signs, a trans-boundary platform on migrants’ rights, has conducted the research on 1,101 migrant workers in Kuwait in May–July and found that workers fell ill because of exhaustion from long work hours, food deprivation and extreme weather in Kuwait. In most cases of reported illness, workers were denied a timely access to health care...

However shocking and saddening the findings of the report are, it has not reported new truth about workers suffering in the Middle East. About 1,018 Bangladeshi workers are reported in 2021 to have died in Qatar in a decade. The Wage Earners’ Welfare Board, meanwhile, shows that at least 33,112 Bangladeshi migrant workers died abroad in 2005–2017...