Hundreds of workers to take advantage of free medical camp on Friday

LANI ROSE R DIZON

DOHA hundreds of workers are expected to attend the camp's health and have free medical check-ups on a program to be held in the buildings of the Medical Commission on Friday as part of the world day for safety and health at work.

Organized by the Supreme Council of health (SCH) in collaboration with the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Ministry of labour, civil protection and Focus Qatar, the event will feature health check-ups, lectures and training sessions from 2 pm to 6 pm.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, SCH public health Director Dr. Mohammed al Thani said: "the goal of the camp is to ensure people that Qatar is a safe place to work. We are working hard to achieve this.

The program will feature lectures on how to prevent communicable and non-communicable diseases.

"Civil protection personnel also offers tips on how to address accidental fire in buildings and factories. We are also focused on a major campaign on heat stroke. We hope that through greater awareness, cases of heat stroke and thermal tax will be reduced in Qatar. " This year SCH Labor Day celebrations are held under the theme ' the prevention of occupational diseases '.

According to the Director of health promotion and gieënvoordeuitwisselingvaninformatieenreacties diseases on SCH Dr Sheikha al Anoud bint Mohammed al Thani, over two million workers around the world killed each year due to different occupational diseases.

In Qatar is the incidence of related injuries fall construction sites a major cause of death and permanent patients in Qatar.

She said: "falls from height happens most of the time due to heat stress. The employees feel drowsy and fall down. That's why the SCH now has a large information campaign on the thermal load.

We will during the event, the logo of the National Committee for safety and health (NCOSH) the residents advice on how to avoid heat stress launch.

"At the same time, we will all recorded data on cases of heat stress of the HMC collection, see how it has gone down over the years and to assess its mortality rate. From there, we will measure how falls from height will drop as soon as heat stress cases have also dropped ".

They added that the existing legislation for the safety of workers by the use of protective equipment and reduced summer work timings on construction sites and open areas is currently under investigation for possible changes.