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Tribune News Network
Doha
The Medical Commission will soon start kidney tests on expatriates during the mandatory medical screening and those found with kidney diseases will be declared medically unfit to reside in Qatar.
This was revealed by Dr Ibrahim al Shaar, Director of Medical Commission at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).
Besides, two new devices have also been installed at the Medical Commission for tests to confirm hepatitis B and C and AIDS at the Medical Commission.
Currently, expatriates are screened for AIDS/HIV, syphilis, tuberculosis, and hepatitis B and C before being granted residency in Qatar.
Shaar said the Medical Commission units received about 770,000 people for screening last year.
While the main centre of Medical Commission receives about 3,500 persons every day, the unit for food handlers, workers at barbershops, beauty centres and health clubs receives 1,000 persons daily.
The X-ray tests have detected 5,820 cases of tuberculosis (TB). Besides, 101 cases of Hepatitis C, 677 cases of hepatitis B, 5,313 cases of old TB and 286 cases of active TB were also detected, according to a report in Al Raya newspaper.
Shaar has called on people to speed up conducting tests for servants and workers to protect the health of family and society.
He said medical examinations are conducted for food handlers annually and not only once.
The tests include laboratory tests for AIDS and hepatitis B and C as well as the x-rays that diagnose TB.
Clinical examination for skin, eyes and heart are also being conducted, he added.
