Employment Examination Center checks 500 Expats every day
The Employment Examination Center in the exhibition grounds in Mishref will receive transactions and conduct tests, as well as speed up the completion of expats' residency procedures.
According to the Arab daily, the said center is better equipped to serve expats than other centers like Shuwaikh and Sabhan, especially during March and June, when workers, sponsors, and company representatives crowded the center after Coronavirus pandemic restrictions were lifted and workers could return to the country.
Mishref's Center for Expatriate Workers can examine about 1,000 cases a day, but it completes 500 transactions a day. As the center was opened in late June to relieve pressure on other centers, the movement of auditors in it has been supervised by the center's officials since the first working hours, as the center is capable of accepting approximately 1,000 cases a day. Coronavirus restrictions have caused a rise in examination demand in recent years compared to the previous two years.
In one hall, there are ten registration points for auditors, a waiting room with air conditioning for 500 people, four x-ray rooms, and 20 blood testing clinics. Furthermore, approximately 160 professionals work at the center, including a doctor, nurse, radiology technician, and administrator, over a 12-hour period and in two shifts, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Citizens are allowed to enter the center with their workers without an appointment provided that the escort is the worker's sponsor.
Five labor examination centers in Shuwaikh, Sabhan, Mushrif, Jahra and Ali Sabah Al-Salem receive between 3,500 and 4,000 cases per day, easing the queues and crowds in early summer. Although the number of employees doubled in mid-March, the ministry was able to reduce waiting times for lab results and improve organizational development. The Jahra Health Center and Jahra Hospital 2 centers were transferred to the old outpatient clinics on 10 October, with six rooms for blood testing, malaria and vaccination, and four reception counters.
To alleviate pressure on other centers, the ministry also recommended establishing new labor examination centers in other regions. At the center, there are 1000 cases per day and a total capacity of 1000, 500 examinations and treatments, 500 waiting rooms, 160 medical, nursing, and administrative personnel, 20 clinics for blood testing, 10 for scoring reviewers, and 4 x-ray rooms.
A 20% increase in the efficiency of blood test rooms is also a priority for the MOH, as is increasing the efficiency of x-ray rooms and increasing the number of workers in all departments. Ministry plans to utilize some of the sites previously designated for dealing with the Coronavirus crisis, including the field hospital in Mishref that was converted into an exam center, proved successful. As a result of the plan, the expatriate or sponsor avoided being fined and the exams were completed quickly.