GEOGRAPHY POSTER - QATAR
(MEDC) vs CHAD (LEDC)
BY: KIARA Mc KERRY, NONDUMISO MADI AND SINOTHANDO
NZAMA
SANITATION
- CHAD
HEALTHCARE - QATAR
Their healthcare system is available to all whether you are a
national of the country or expatriate or tourist. The country has
an excellent standard of healthcare and medical services. Qatar
citizens are covered by a National Health Insurance scheme.
·Offers most advances medical equipment and highly qualified
staff. Has a country wide network of hospitals and healthcare
centres
·Qatar health system has been ranked 5th best in the world and
1st in the middle east
Improved life expectancy of 79 years and better health outcomes
·The country has one of the highest number of obesity and
diabetes (over $4.7 million invested in healthcare as of 2014
Their hospitals are very developed and have waiting rooms.
Infant mortality rate is very low.
· Diarrheal diseases caused the
deaths of around 19,200
children under five years old in
Chad in 2008
·Inadequate access to safe water
and sanitation services, coupled
with poor hygiene practices, kills
and sickens children every day
in Chad, and leads to
impoverishment and
diminished opportunities for
them
·Chad has one of the lowest
rates of access to safe drinking
water and sanitation services in
the world.
HEALTHCARE - CHAD
Maternal and child mortality are significant problems. Chad has
the highest maternal ratios in central Africa
·Constrained by inadequate health sector financing and by
inefficient and poorly distributed human resources for
healthcare
·A combination of poor service, accessibility, affordability and
quality has resulted in very low use of existing healthcare services
·They don’t have the necessary infrastructure and resources to
improve healthcare
·Ranked 37th among 47 in the Sub Saharan African region.
Overall score is well below the regional and world averages
·In 2004 - 4 physicians , 15 nurses per 100 000 people
·Public healthcare expenditure were 2.9.1 of their GDP
SANITATION
- QATAR
EDUCATION QATAR
6 years of primary education is
compulsory, all stating schooling is
free. 3 years of middle school then
follow
There are ±185 private schools that
learners are enrolled in
Children go to school with bus service
or parents hire private drivers
·Department of training and vocational
development supplies the nation’s
skilled and semi-skilled requirements
EDUCATION CHAD
School attendance is compulsory until
age 12
Limited facilities and it’s difficult for the
education system to provide adequate
instruction
Teachers have only marginal
qualification
Lack sufficient facilities for technical
and vocational education to train
needed intermediate-level technicians
– no university
·The Qatar Public Works
Authority has decided to
develop a modern gravimetric
sanitation network composed
of large underground collection
networks.
· All of Qatar’s population has
access to clean water and
sanitation services
· Qatar ranks number one in the
world in access to water,
sanitation and hygiene