Officials and employees of Karwa at the awareness event.
DOHA: Within the annual plan of events carried out by Mowasalat (Karwa) to spread health and safety awareness among its employees, especially drivers and support staff, Mowasalat has concluded the second awareness session for the identification of narcotic substances.
The event was organised at Mowasalat training centre in collaboration with the specialised team of the Department of Studies and International Affairs, Drug Enforcement Department, MoI.
The sessions held under the slogan “Be the Role Model” and focused primarily on familiarising Mowasalat employees with the harms of drugs and alcohol and spread the benefits they learned to their company colleagues.
More than 800 employees attended the sessions from different cultures and languages, such as Arabic, English and Urdu. Lectures were organised twice a week with over 140 attendees in each session. The programme included awareness lectures to shed light on the harms of drugs, as well as the serious effects of psychotropic substances and medicinal drugs that lead to addiction.
The lectures addressed several topics such as identifying the causes and motivations of addiction and its effects on the individuals, families and society, and ways to address them early. They also addressed possible ways to identify different types of narcotic and psychotropic substances, including various medicines and drugs that are prohibited in the State of Qatar, as well as the legal provisions concerning drugs. The lectures were organized with the objective of raising awareness about Qatari laws on dealing, sale and abuse of drugs and alcohol, and focused on the international updates regulating drugs.
In addition, the sessions covered important social, security, health, legal and psychological impacts of drugs. They also addressed the importance of preventive education, which plays an important role in the prevention of drugs.
Mowasalat (Karwa) coordinated with Drug Enforcement Department to continue these awareness sessions periodically because of their positive and important role.
