By Muslim Mirror Special Correspondent,
New Delhi: The story carried by MuslimMirror.com on money minting from poor laborers seeking job in Kuwait in name of ‘KHADAMAT’ finally bore the fruit as the Kuwait government has announced that only GAMCA (Gulf Approved Medical Centre Association) medical report will be accepted with effect from Monday June 29, 2015.
A notice issued by the Kuwaiti embassy in New Delhi stated that “All authorized agents and individuals are hereby informed that Medical Reports will be accepted from GAMCA (Gulf Approved Medical Centre Association) with effect from Monday, June 29, 2015”.
In its report under the caption ‘KHADAMAT: A Kuwaiti instrument to suck blood of poor workforce from India’,
On June 17, Muslim Mirror highlighted that before June1, 2015 a job seeker who sought to go Kuwait had to pay Rs 4000 for medical checkup but now he/ she has to cough up Rs 24000 for the same check-up. However, the actual cost of the check-up doesn’t go Rs 500, but workers are paying eight times more. As the newly introduced KHADAMAT was extorting a huge money to tune of Rs 24000 for medical screening of candidates leaving for Kuwait as against Rs 3,600 collected by previous company GAMCA.
The story of Muslim Mirror was sent to national and international media outlets as well as different departments of health ministry of Kuwait apart from International Labor Organization (ILO) which finally brought the result .
Taking the cognizance of the Muslim Mirror story, the Kuwaiti government on 29th June through a circular pronounced that no extra charge will be levied on the job seeking workers who come from poor financial background.
Now the Kuwait embassy declared that it has reverted back old practice of accepting medical reports from GAMCA .
Post Publication
After publication of the story, H.E. Mr. Fahad Ahmad Al-Awadhi, the Ambassador of Kuwait to India called on Muslim Mirror editor Syed Zubair Ahmad and thanked him for doing a great favor to the migrant workers by doing such story and congratulated him for doing journalism of the people.