DPM Yadav for accelerating joint efforts with Qatar to make nepali workers skilled

Kathmandu, Nov. 13: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population Upendra Yadav has underscored the need to accelerate joint efforts with Qatar in making Nepali migrant workers more skilled.

“We need to further accelerate the joint-efforts in making Nepali migrant workers more skilled, trained and qualified to their prosepctive jobs and professions,” he said in a meeting with Minister of Administrative Developmet of Qatar Yousef bin Mohammed Al Othman Farhro on Tuesday in Doha.

In this context, establishment of an advanced training institute to enhance workers’ skills and competence was featured during the discussion, including other areas of mutual cooperation, said the Embassy of Nepal in Doha.

Yadav and Farhro discussed matters related to the promotion of bilateral relations between Nepal and the State of Qatar, including the issues of safety, security and welfare of Nepali workers there.

Similarly, views were also expressed on further expanding mutual cooperation and collaboration between the concerned authorities of both the governments.

DPM Yadav participated in the opening ceremony of World Innovative Summit for Health  (WISH).

Earlier on Monday, he participated in the opening ceremony of Sidra Medicine, a facility committed to providing women and children of Qatar with world class tertiary health care services. He also visited Qatar Rehabilitation Centre and Ambulatory Care Centre of Hamad Medical Corporation where he interacted with Nepali patients receiving treatment there.

DPM Yadav is on a visit of Qatar leading a Nepali delegation to participate in the World Innovative Summit for Health (WISH) being held in Doha on November 13 and 14.

Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 14 November 2018.