SCH: Qatar has low work site deaths
Work site deaths and injuries in Qatar are among the lowest in the world, while many developed countries have a much higher rate compared to the gulf nation.
Dr Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, Director, Department of Public Health at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) made these statements on Monday.
Most deaths among labourers in Qatar are caused by heart attacks that happen outside the workplace, especially during sleep due to genetic factors.
Majority of workers come from areas of high altitude which lacks oxygen and are more susceptible to heart attacks, he added.
He was speaking at a press meeting to announce a conference on occupational safety and health SCH is holding in October in collaboration with a leading event management company.
He said workplace injuries in Qatar are declining gradually due to the state's efforts to ensure safety regulations are followed at work place. He said authorities are working on a new health strategy for labourers and other employees, in partnership with a German company specialising in the field. The strategy will be launched by this year-end.
It is part of constant efforts to make Qatar one of the best countries in the world in terms of work environment and standards of living and health, he added.
Dr Sheikh Mohammed said Qatar has been witnessing unprecedented economic growth, which naturally increases the influx of foreign workforce and added that the state is keen to maintain a healthy and efficient workforce.
Saleh Al Muhannadi, Secretary-General, Qatar Red Crescent, spoke about the importance of the conference and said QRC will take part.
QRC has dozens of health programmes that benefit citizens and expatriates. It manages three workers-only health centres and seven such centres are under construction.
The biggest health centre for workers will soon open in Mesaimeer. It will have all medical specialities and a branch of the Medical Commission, he added. [The Peninsula]
Photo by Mohammed Noorudeen
One remark on "genetic factors". The available data indicate that residency at higher altitudes are associated with LOWER mortality from cardiovascular diseases, stroke and certain types of cancer. This is the opinion of the 'US National Library of Medicine' at the National Institutes of Health. But, of course, this is not true and Dr Al Thani is right. Why? Because he's an Al Thani.
its a tough life for them in qatar & 99% death's wont even get registered as on site for the stats to make such articles & make it fifa ready by 2022 .
Also according to article "Most deaths among labourers in Qatar are caused by heart attacks that happen outside the workplace, especially during sleep due to genetic factors."
and in headline they say "SCH: Qatar has low work site deaths"
so you wont consider people death offsite due to the hardwork in heat & bad conditions.
News media must be unbiased & then only there can be room for some improvements .
Yes, the western governments should as English is their native Language. The rule should be applied in the UK and the US beginning with the two people who could not spell "tomorrow" and "potato" correctly. Many "educated" westerners may then be forced to get back to school to learn English starting from KG 1!
http://www.qatarliving.com/forum/qatari-culture/posts/improper-arabic-public-might-become-offence
I think they should do the same for "improper" English.
Mary you are right. It should not have started at all. But then, we have some people who are out to grab the most minor mistakes of someone from the Arab world and also from the east and turn them into an issue. My question to such people is "What are they trying to prove? Their superiority?" Any person with a broader outlook of life should would have simply overlooked such matters especially in cases such as this one when the mistake was made by a person whose native language is not English. I was forced to retaliate coming to the defense of the people of this region and bringing to light the mistakes in language of leaders in the west. It was just to show the one person who went into overdrive in his attacks, that all is not holy in the west also. I just hope some people would use their thinking and writing powers in a more positive and constructive way rather than the way it was done now by using each and every opportunity to belittle the people from the Arab world and the east. The violent attack that was started over the use of language had nothing to do with the subject in the first place.
Why are people talking about grammar and language usage? Isn't this about lives?
According to the logic of Wild Turkey when the US Vice President Dan Quayle wrote the word as "potatatoe" on the whiteboard in front of schoolchildren, it’s okay as he is from the west and his native language is English. I am sure he must have had the school children giggling in the classroom. However, when an Arab minister whose native language is not English, mixes up the word altitude with latitude, Mr Wild Turkey's eyes pop out of their sockets, his guns roll out, and a series of rapid mortar fire follows. The defense that Mr Wild Turkey has so far put up for his western compatriots saying the Tony Blair is a politician and not a lawyer, is feeble and is based on flawed reasoning . It is okay, according to the logic of Mr Wild Turkey, if Tony Blair has made a spelling mistake in his native Language as he was the Prime Minister. But it is not okay if Dr Sheikh Mohammed bin Hammad bin Jassim Al Thani makes minor slip and uses an incorrect word in a language which is not his. Blair did not print his own mistake. No one in his proper frame of mind would ever do that. It was the media that did Mr Wild Turkey, the media!
Mr Wild Turkey, when you look at the Arabs, Qatar, and the people from the east, I suggest you see them through clear glasses and not through colored ones. You will get to see a lot of beauty, good things and good people in this part of the world also.
According to the logic of accha Blair says something and then prints it. Is that true? Or was it printed by somebody else?
Just because a death does not occur on the worksite does not mean that the working conditions and treatment of labourers don't contribute to these "heart attacks".
The mistakes by Tony Blair and Dan Quayle are also in print.
http://www.benlocker.co.uk/the-top-10-political-spelling-and-grammar-failures/
You become blind to what happens on your side of the world and when a mistake occurs in this part of the world, your eyes simply roll out.
It takes courage, lots of courage man, to accept a mistake!
WT ............ Be soft my pal .............. ............ Joys ......... Thu, 04.06.2015, 08.33 AM
It's PRINTED, man, not spoken. I can forgive you when you make a mistake in a conversation. If you write it you can use a stupid native or non-native expert BEFORE you publish your opinion.
As per the logic of Wild Turkey, it is okay for a native English speaker such as Tony Blair and the US Vice President Dan Quayle to make "stupid" mistakes in English spellings which even a schoolchild would not be making. Of course it is their language and of course they have right to call any errors in English as being correct. Mr Wild Turkey makes a vain attempt to defend the two leaders by putting up a very feeble defense claiming they are politicians and not lawyers and as such are not supposed to know English words and their correct spellings. Ha! Ha! Surely, his logic is beyond one's comprehension. However when an Arab national whose native language is not English erroneously uses the word "latitude” instead of "altitude," Mr Wild Turkey's guns are quick to go blazing from their turrets.
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In my opinion it's fairly easy and one must be an idiot if he doesn't understand that.
OK, geographic coordinates are depicted in longitude (running from pole to pole) and latitude (running from the equator north or south). Altitude is used for airplanes. They fly at altitudes (above sea-level). A hill or a mountain is an elevation. I hope I've made it clear.
Altus means 'high' in Latin, latus means 'wide' in Latin. It's quite significant.
WT: altitude or latitude... difference is insignificant - both are strange english words doing that end with "-titude".
Blair or the Vice President are no measure for correct English, dear accha. They are only politicians. If they were lawyers their mistakes would be fatal.
Tony Blair failed to spell the word "tomorrow" twice in a short letter and wrote the word as "toomorrow." In 1992 when a school pupil wrote the word "potato" on the blackboard, the US Vice President who was visiting the school was appalled and quickly corrected it to "potatoe!" English is their "native language."
English is NOT the native language of Arabs!!!!
It only shows that you don't know what you're talking about.
Tundra, if you say "I drive you" instead of "I love you", do you think that it's a 'spelling mistake'?
From a 'professional' I don't accept 'simple spelling mistakes'. However, it's not a 'spelling' mistake, it's a completely different word!
Wild Turkey - maybe a simple spelling mistake was made in the article - "altitude" should have been written, instead of "latitude"??
We are very happy with constant efforts being done in this regard ....................... Tue, 03.06,2015, 08.33 hrs .........
Ha, ha, ha, my mother is still a virgin.....
"areas of high latitude which lacks oxygen.." Dr Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani should go back to school. High latitude depicts countries that lie further north from the equator, like Germany, Great Britain, or Scandinavia. There is enough oxygen for everyone. What he meant was areas of high 'elevation', like Tibet or Nepal. But, as I've said, it's not enough to lie. It's necessary to lie cleverly. Otherwise it's simply stupid.
Ha, ha, ha.
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