Working in Qatar Will Literally Make You Crazy!
Many low-income workers in Qatar end up losing their jobs due to psychiatric disorders resulting from work-related problems, according to a senior official of the Psychiatry Department at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
Financial problems coupled with poor living conditions and difficult job circumstances have caused a rise in psychiatric disorders among unskilled and semi-skilled workers in the country.
However, the increasing financial pressure on middle-income families has not so far resulted in a rise in such cases in this segment of society, at least yet, according to Dr Suhaila A Ghuloum, Acting Head of the Department.
As for the middle-income segment, Ghuloum said her department had not seen an increase in cases so far. "People suffering from stress and anxiety do not necessarily go to a psychiatrist. Many tend to manage such problems on their own. However, financial difficulties can aggravate the condition of people who already suffer from stress-related disorders and this can delay recovery."
The worst affected among the laborers are the newly-recruited workers who fail to adjust to their work environment and find their hopes shattered when they are forced to take up lowly-paid jobs here and have to put up with atrocious living conditions.
"A main reason behind the rise in the cases is the increasing number of foreign workers being recruited to the country. Some of the victims may have past records of psychiatric disorders, but they don't admit it for fear of losing their job," said Ghuloum.
She said most of these patients are sent back to their countries by the sponsors after they are discharged from the hospital. "We have a group of social workers who liaise between these workers and their sponsors to ensure that they are paid all dues, in case of repatriation," she added.
The Department has recorded an increase of 1,403 cases in 2007 compared to the previous year. A total of 17,882 cases were reported last year.
"Our outpatient section gets about 70 to 120 cases every day, of varying nature. Most of them are related to schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, stress, and bipolar disorder," she said.
The Department has 73 beds, which she said was enough to meet the current requirements since all cases reported to the outpatient section do not require hospital admission.
Source: The Peninsula
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I'm a british muslim living
I'm a british muslim living in Africa and thought about working in Qatar. I've given up the idea. Qatar, Dubai and Saudia Arabia leaders are a shame for Islam. Their religion seems to be money, only money. But I also think these leaders have been "chosen" by western countries. Western leaders certainly have the power to "choose" the leaders in these countries, and putting someone who follows Islam in a normal way certainly doesn't suit the West.
AN AFRICANS OPINION ON THE ARAB WORLD
Asalamualeikum all,
I recently visited UAE on my annual leave and was quite shocked. Im a muslim and never ever expected a true muslim to mistreat fellow human beings. The living and working conditions I saw in Dubai and especially a labour camp in Al muhaisnah shocked me. Even in Africa where I came from there is nothing like that. The arabs have misrepresented Islam and made it very unattractive and yet this Religion is that of peace, tolerance and respect of humanity. What a shame ... if the prophet of Allah, Muhammad SAW, was here today, WHAT WILL YOU ARABS SAY HAVE DONE FOR ISLAM ... USING MONEY IN USELESS THINGS AND YOUR BROTHERS ARE DYING IN PALESTINE, SOMALIA, AFGHANISTAN ... THE LIST IS ENDLESS.
Do you arabs have any morals. Do you know the purpose of life on earth. Please wake up and be true muslims. Put purpose in your life. Wealth is not everything. Dont go back to the days of ignorance (jahiliya). I THINK THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF ARABS TODAY IS LACK OF INTELLECTUALISM. DESPITE ALL THE WEALTH ... WEALTH IS USELESS WITHOUT BRAINS. WAKE UP ... SLAVERY IS LONG GONE ALL MEN ARE EQUAL EVEN IN THE EYES OF THE LORD. ISLAM IS NOT JUST PUTTING ON KANZUS AND WALKING AROUND IN SHOPPING MALLS ... IF THE PROPHET SAW BEHAVED LIKE YOU, ISLAM WOULDNT HAVE REACHED PEOPLE LIKE US IN AFRICA. WE THANK ALLAH FOR THE WONDERFUL DEEN, WEATHER AND MOST OF ALL MAKING ME AN AFRICAN. WE LOVE EVERYBODY AND TREAT THEM WELL. VERY SOON WE SHALL HAVE A NEW COUNTRY CALLED SOUTH SUDAN ... ALL WORKERS ARE WELCOME ...
The world best hypocrites with strictest law
A place like this has such strict laws. Qataris has to pray every day, every few hours, every minute and seconds of their life reminding themselves of the muslim laws. Yet during the EID holidays, you can see them fleeing to neighbourhood countries like Dubai, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi to screw hookers.
3 rules
Never take a car loan, get a credit card or take out a personal loan.
Everyone here should have learnt that from Dubai.
Keep mobile so that you can get out of this boring place.
Expat
STOP FIFA
They are trying to buy there way into hosting the Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid. They must be stopped...how many labourers will be killed during the process. Qatar is a forsaken place - the negativity their will never stop! Please start a petition to send to FIFA to not bring the World Cup to Qatar
I got fired for actually doing work!
I recently got fired from QP for actually turning up every day and doing work. My asshole Qatari manager tried to stop me from doing work at every turn and delayed and delayed any decisions so I couldn't progress with anything. I was probably showing him up. Spent 6 months in that god-forsaken place - 6 months of my life that I will never get back! And because of the declining exchange rate, I earnt way less than what I was originally offered - and they didn't do much about it despite their promises. Don't go there and don't work for QP! They are all liars there.
Just think about it!
A close friend, and internationally acclaimed human rights journalist. with extensive experience of working in Afghanistan left Qatar because of its inhumane treatment of foreign workers. The leaving comment was that it was preferable to work in a war zone than in Qatar. Wake up!!
Qatari
Does any Qatari, male or female (thats a stretch) actually know and understand that the world thinks they are the most hypocritical human race, unnessarily breathing our air ?
God forbid they breed !!
Oh, by the way, the TWO assholes whom were hospitialized last week in Bangkok, trying to pick up a lady boy.. (after their wives and children were sent back to the 3rd rate hotel room)...
Your addresses were "published" in Qatar, ...when you wake up.. pray the same two guys dont come see you again...
your skulls will crack open this time..
Bank loans in Qatar
I am currently working in Qatar. I took out a bank loan through a well known world bank.
I want to leave Qatar. Does anyone know if you can leave the country and be a bad debtor... and If you are sponsered for work, Is the company you work for responsible for the money...
Just a thought, and would welcome any advice/experiences...
I am stuck here
I have bank loan, car and personal loan...i had to merge both of them to make it a personal loan, which means that my car should be in my name now and not under th bank's name, i should be able to sell my car, well my car is still under the bank name, because there is an exception to my case, God Knows which one that is, and the personal loan i have now is tripple of the car value... with more the 90000 riyal interest, really do not take any loans here in qatar, you will get stuck forever, and if you want toleave you have to JUMP SHIP, even if you are a good person, because they do not let you leave in good conditions, and without any other choices, because the work circonstances are unberable. I WAS PROMISED 15000QR SALARY, and I signed the contract with that amount. on my last working week, they wrote by hand and in arabic on the contract that they would put down my salary to 5000qr...i had already resigned from my previous company and it was too late. I had to merge my two loans to one and get 60000qr of interest extra which in total is 90000qr interest, and i had only 2 years left to pay before merging the both loans and now i have 5 years extra and i am stuck with a car, that its value is not even half of the remaining loan......working extra hours, and not getting paid over time, and connot even resign or get release for the next 2 years, THAT IS IF THEY GIVE ME THE RELEASE.!!!!
what shoul i do...my loan is half of my salary, and the rest i have left is to pay the RIDICULOUS rent which is overpriced in QATAR for what they have...I WORK 12 HOURS A DAY, AND I DONT EVEN GET OVERPAID...i am living to pay my rent and loan...for the next 5 years...
What should i do?? abandone my car and leave? and become blacklist, considered as a thief because the labor department can not do anything for me, because they support their own nationality===QATARIES??
All this situation because of a Qatari boss who changed by HAND my contract after i had signed, and their are no labor laws to even help me with this!!!!!
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