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With the majority of emergency calls deemed ‘unnecessary’, when is the right time to call 999?

  • Aseel Hamdan
  • December 14, 2021
An official at the National Command center(NCC) in Qatar stresses the importance of calling the emergency number only in serious situations, describing most calls as ‘unnecessary’. The majority of emergency…
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QRCS rallies to help thousands of displaced Syrian flooding victims

  • Hala Abdallah
  • January 27, 2021
Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) launches an emergency relief campaign to rescue thousands of flooding victims in north-western Syria. QRCS undertook an urgent initiative on Wednesday aiming at relieving vulnerable…
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Stadiums to house Qatar residents in the event of a national emergency

  • Lesley Walker and Riham Sheble
  • September 11, 2016
The venues will serve as temporary accommodation and be stocked with survival kits, said Brig. Hamad Othman Al Duhaimi, director of operations at the General Directorate of Civil Defense.
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Card-only payment starts today at Doha’s pediatric emergency center

  • Lesley Walker
  • May 16, 2016
Payment to the center, which is located on C-Ring Road, can be made by debit or credit card, or a QNB e-cash card, which can be bought for QR20 and topped up to pay for government services.
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More than 5,000 calls to 999 made each day in Qatar in 2015

  • Lesley Walker
  • February 7, 2016
While 999 is supposed to be used only in the case of real emergencies, the MOI's chief of emergencies Khalid Saleh Al-Ansari has previously complained that 90 percent of the calls made to the service are not for crises.
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Official: Qatar to more than double number of emergency call operators

  • Heba Fahmy
  • October 12, 2015
The emergency department currently receives some 4,000 to 6,000 calls a day on the 999 emergency number, but 90 percent of those calls are not emergencies, a senior MOI official has said.
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HMC report: Demand for emergency medical care in Qatar surges

  • Lesley Walker
  • June 28, 2015
The volume of calls requesting an ambulance increased 28 percent in just 12 months, from 131, 482 in 2013 to 168,332 last year, HMC said in its 2014/15 Annual Report.
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Expansion planned for Qatar hospital’s emergency department

  • Lesley Walker
  • November 10, 2014
The development comes at a time when universities here are working to increase the number of locally trained medical professions, to meet the growing needs of the population.
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Official: Only 10 percent of 999 calls in Qatar for ‘real’ emergencies

  • Lesley Walker
  • October 19, 2014
One long-time emergency room doctor in Qatar said that 999 is overused in Qatar because many expats cannot afford to seek treatment at the country's private clinics and hospitals.
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