Staff of Qatar Care during a voluntary work to fight COVID-19 pandemic.
Doha: Through its participation in fighting the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Qatar Care company has achieved 19,748 hours of voluntary work from March until September this year, as part of its work under the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).
The achievement indicates the close cooperation between the private and public sectors in Qatar’s health sector and the constant coordination of efforts to fight such a global pandemic.
Qatar Care Executive Director, Saleh Salem Al Eida said that since it first engaged in the fight against COVID-19, Qatar Care has conducted around 50,000 swab tests for the virus, including 3,000 swabs in a single day, a rate of 56 swabs completed per 26 minutes. These have covered health quarantines, hotels, the operation centers for the team of the quarantine testing, and the mobile testing areas at the vehicles, houses, housing complexes, labourers’ accommodations, employees’ housing, the Industrial Area, playgrounds, mosques, commercial complexes, public places, and health facilities.
He further pointed out that the company has carried out around 1,968 trips by private vehicles across all the country’s areas for the same purpose, besides donating clothes for doctors and some medical necessities. He stressed that the company’s best medical teams have been directed to carry out voluntary work in the fight against COVID-19.
Al Eida considers that the company’s voluntary work agrees with Qatar’s policy, which is regarded as a pioneer in this field worldwide, and Qatar National Vision 2030 under the wise leadership of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He also explained that the company’s voluntary work is considered the least possible thing to repay Qatar for its efforts in maintaining the well-being of its people, back its organizations, and give the due support to individuals and organisations alike.
Accordingly, he stated that the company is ready to assist the MoPH, which has already made great strides in fighting the pandemic. It will also support private health organisations to blend private and public sectors’ collective efforts to achieve the best healthcare, adding that the company would remain supportive of the key role undertaken by the MoPH as it provides all the possible support and assistance to the private sector in the country to help keep the excellent and sophisticated high-quality health care level in Qatar.
Qatar Care has carried out various tasks in its efforts to fight COVID-19 such as taking samples and swabs for COVID-19 tests, transport of these samples, regulation and management of the assembly operations, communication and dealing with the public, participation at the preparation, equipment, and management of the facilities.
Others include nursing services, receiving applications and requests, preparation and management of appointments, assistance, support and guidance of patients, and taking care of patients and accompanying them, in addition to the training and education efforts.
Qatar Care is considered the first and only private sector company that quickly volunteered at these works, and the voluntary team of the company has been taking part in all these tasks since March. Established in 2007, Qatar Care Company is the first private health care company in Qatar and the first health institution in Qatar to win the Diamond Level of Accreditation granted by Accreditation Canada International, and it the second worldwide to win such in the field of home health care.
Since its establishment, the company has been working in the health care field, providing related services to more than 30,000 families for 13 years. The company is in several nursing areas at clinics, hospitals, worksites, schools, universities, and during travel. It also provides physiotherapy services, including post-operative rehabilitation, physiotherapy of the elderly people, physiotherapy for movement difficulties and the handicapped, and physiotherapy for sports injuries.
The other work fields cover care services for older people, newborns, children, and people with special needs and assist them. Besides, the company offers medical facilities management services in equipping clinics, employment, and staff training, assistance at creating the organisational structure of health facilities.
