When Nepalese migrant workers are seriously injured while working in Qatar there are no mechanisms that allow for them to return to Nepal. More than a dozen Nepalese workers are comatose or in a vegetative state in Qatari hospitals, but their families cannot take on the expensive burden of bringing them home.
For the millions of Nepalese migrant workers abroad, the devastating 2015 earthquake in Nepal presented a dilemma: Return home to be with family or continue working to support their family. Migrant worker Dhurba B.K. decided to stay in Qatar, but now it seems he will have to stay abroad longer to help his family recover from losses due to the quake.
Twenty Nepalese migrant workers were left stranded, broke and homeless in Qatar when their company was sold. It was a tangle of corruption, unfair labor practices and shady businesses, but the men are just a handful of desperate Nepalese workers who got duped by the lure of a good job abroad.