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Qatar today stands accused of deliberately covering up the deaths of dozens of construction site workers by systematically moving their bodies and giving medics no say on how they were killed.
A British medical professional with the Hamad Medical Corporation — Qatar’s NHS — has described in minute detail to The Mail on Sunday how he was repeatedly called to patients whose injuries were consistent with great falls or electrocution, yet who were laid out nowhere near a building site or power source.
The medic, whose name we are withholding for reasons of personal safety, told of becoming suspicious when Qatari police always seemed to be first on the scene when he arrived.
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The locations, including community five-a-side football pitches or even the desert, did not tally with the patients’ severe crushing and ‘polytrauma’ (multiple injuries in the same area).
Some of the patients had clearly been dead for days when the medic was called to examine them.
The source, who has now left Hamad, said: ‘It happened on a regular basis. The police would always say, “It’s an assault, or heart failure, or a collapse” when it wasn’t. Everybody gets put down as “cardio pulmonary failure”. We would have no say on the cause of death.’
The source’s testimony comes the week after The Mail on Sunday revealed the
