Instead of forfilling the dream he died in his sleep

Mohammad Kaochar Khanhad dream was to send his five-year-old son to school and to build a mansion at home with the money earned in Qatar. Instead of forfilling the dream he died in his sleep at a labourcamp outside Doha.

Back in Qatar his son holds his father’s national ID card and still waits to get his dad back.

The bangladeshi migrant worker Mohammad Kaochar Khan was fond dead in his bed on November 15, 2017 at the age of 34.

In his death certificate as well as the certificate from the Bangladesh embassy in Qatar it says that his cause of death was “acute respiratory failure due to natural cause”.

Kaochar hailed from Dobipator village of Kishoreganj district and he did not have any past record of heart disease, says his family back home.

“He went to Qatar to work in a construction site as a worker after paying $3726 for workpermit and visa,” says his family.

He was the families sole bread earner and his family and son has since then been in financial trouble.

According to the Bangladesh Embassy’s No-Objection Certificate (NOC), Kaochar was employed by Redeo Construction-Almana, a Doha based firm and he was paid $200 a month.

“His plan for migrating to Qatar was to collect a good amount of money so that he could educate his son and build a mansion”, says his younger brother Didarul Islam Khan who works for the government.

“I never heard any major complain about his health.  But we did not discuss or ask about issues related to working and living conditions, actually we did not know anything about them,” says the brother.

“He often told us that he stayed in a shared room in a labour camp in Doha. There were many other co-workers, some of them were from Bangladesh. He used to eat food which was cooked in the camp.”

The family has not yet gotten any compensation or financial assistance from the Qatarbased construction company.

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