Shocking wife of dead Qatari worker: ‘His life was worth so little, he worked long hours in the heat with no shade’

Ruba was another case of a man who went to Qatar to work and returned to Nepal in a coffin. According to the Daily Mail, 239 workers from Nepal have died in Qatar in the 12 months from 2020 to 2021. However, 45% of deaths were attributed to natural causes.

The numbers are shocking. Qatar’s national statistics service reveals that since 2011, more than 18,000 migrant workers have died in the country, which hosts the biggest sports festival. However, the Qatar World Cup High Commission records as “work-related” deaths only those that happened in its stages.

This is because the host country of the World Cup does not consider heat, long working hours or living conditions as contributing factors to “work-related” deaths.

For most, Rouba is just another number, another death. To Pahrin, however, he was her husband and the father of the boy she had in her womb.

In a letter of 800 words The Secretary-General of the High Commission, Hassan Al Thawadi, expressed his deep regret but thoughtfully declined their claim for compensation that the 1,750 euros he has already received “help”. Her words to the Daily Mail are shocking:

“His life seemed worth so little in the end. I just wanted him to be here with me, not asking for money for his life. When I was told he was dying, I felt like I was falling from heaven. He was Beyond imagination I couldn’t How can I forget him?

They said his heart was responsible for his death, but he never had a problem. He told me about the heat out there, how he felt the heat of the street under his shoes.

He told me there was no shadow on the field when he was hanging on the ropes. “He worked long hours, but he never had a health problem.”

The fatal call and denial of compensation

Pahrin received the fatal call from a colleague who told her: “He died in his sleep.”

An hour later, an officer called her and the woman revealed: “They said that if she died in the field but not in the hospital, she would be entitled to compensation.”