When you have a baby in the US it is required to have an infant car seat, in your car, when you leave the hospital. If you don’t have one, one will be arranged for you. That’s the law. But this is not the case in Qatar, yet. According to Dr Khalid Alsaadi, Paediatric Emergency Consultant at HMC, “At this time the law applies only to the driver and the front seat passenger. The law does not reach to the rear seat where children may be found standing or sitting without their seatbelts/car seats in use. But new regulations are supposed to be coming out soon regarding infant/child car seats.”
When you have a baby in the US it is required to have an infant car seat, in your car, when you leave the hospital. If you don’t have one, one will be arranged for you. That’s the law. But this is not the case in Qatar, yet. According to Dr Khalid Alsaadi, Paediatric Emergency Consultant at HMC, “At this time the law applies only to the driver and the front seat passenger. The law does not reach to the rear seat where children may be found standing or sitting without their seatbelts/car seats in use. But new regulations are supposed to be coming out soon regarding infant/child car seats.”