The overall health of a nation is the total sum of its people’s health status, which means healthy people make a healthy nation. But the well-being of the people of the country greatly depend on the available standard of living, nutrition, healthcare facilities, good environment and of course a peaceful atmosphere. In some countries, despite having all these parameters, the health of the general population falters mainly because of lack of exercise and substance abuse.
In this context a few countries like Qatar stands apart with world class healthcare system and all encompassing healthy environment. The country’s medical facilities with state-of-the-art hospitals equipped with best diagnostic and treatment tools manned by the best crop of medical practitioners from across the world can be the envy of other countries. While the healthcare system of most of the countries were overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Qatar’s health sector once again proved its resilience and capacity to face any challenge and come out of it victorious.
When it comes to providing modern healthcare, expertise of doctors and other support staff is the most important factor. As the world has become a global village, countries compete each other to attract the best available healthcare professionals and it is natural that experts choose different countries to practise their profession considering the facilities available in a particular country and opportunities offered for professional growth there.
When it comes to accepting health professionals from abroad, Qatar follows a strict screening and accreditation mechanism to ensure the country’s people are getting fool-proof medical facilities. Recently a report said that the inspecting procedures by the Ministry of Public Health, represented by the Department of Healthcare Professions, has detected 23 health professionals submitted forged certificates while applying for licence to practise their profession in Qatar’s health sector. The applicants included 17 doctors, four allied medical professionals and two nurses. Director of the Department of Healthcare Professions at MoPH Dr. Saad Rashid Al Kaabi said: “Through our procedures, we are keen to verify the validity of the certificates and documents provided and ensure that the practitioners applying for registration and licensing are among those who value the ethics of the profession and know the trust vested on them.”
Qatar follows the same standard of procedures both in government and private health care facilities and the country’s strict accreditation and licensing procedures ensure that foreign professionals bring in authentic training and experience with them. The detected forgeries were mainly related to documents submitted as proof of experience. In medical profession, experience is equally or more important than educational qualification and hence authentication of documents related to experience carries much weight.
