Better Connections Virtual Consultation – Pilot phase

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

The initiative “Better Connections” aims to reduce migrant workers visits to hospitals and health centres as much as possible in order to comply with the measures of social distancing, while easing the consultation with doctors from labor compounds. The Better Connections virtual consultation is based on improving infrastructure (computers installed and connected to the internet in labor camps), to allow the migrant workers to have a successful virtual consultation with physician and doctors in the health centres through online video session instead of physical visits the health centres or hospitals.

Country

Qatar

Institution

Ministry of Public Health