200 plus centres in Asia and Africa for medical tests
DOHA: More than 200 medical centres in 11 Asian and African countries have been assigned to conduct the medical check for people seeking jobs in Qatar.
The check-up in home countries has been made mandatory from tomorrow.
The rule will apply to all categories of job seekers including professionals. However, people applying for a family visa or visit visa are not required to undergo the medical check up in home countries before their departure to Qatar, it is learnt.
Dr Ibrahim Al Shaar, director of the Medical Commission said yesterday that all arrangements had been made for implementing the decision. “We have already informed all the authorised medical centers in those countries about the decision,” l Shaar told The Peninsula.
A detailed list of these medical centres are available on the website of the Supreme Council of Health. They had been selected by the GCC secretariat to conduct the test for all GCC countries.
Beginning tomorrow, all job seekers from the said countries are required to submit a copy of the medical certificate issued by an authorised medical centre in their country while applying for a work visa in Qatar.
The Medical Commission will do its own check up after the applicant arrives in Qatar and the original of the medical certificate should have to be produced during this check up, explained Al Shaar.
This system will continue until an electronic linking between the authorised medical centers in the said countries and the authorities concerned in Qatar will be in place, he added.
The rule applies to job seekers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria and Eritrea.
THE PENINSULA
source: https://thepeninsulaqatar.com