Indian embassy received 369 complaints in January this year, it was informed at its monthly Community House yesterday.
In the whole of 2015, the mission received 4,132 complaints at its Labour and Community Welfare department.
The first Community House of this year was held at the Indian embassy yesterday.
The number of deaths registered in the embassy in January was 19. The number of deaths registered during 2015 was 279. The same number of deaths were registered during 2014 also.
Ambassador Sanjiv Arora, Deputy Chief of Mission R K Singh and other officials met all the complainants, discussed their problems and assured them that the embassy would actively follow up their cases with the local authorities.
It was informed that an embassy team visited the Central Prison and Deportation Centre earlier this week to inquire about the welfare of detainees from India.
While there are 90 Indian nationals in the Central Prison, there are 172 waiting for their repatriation at the Deportation Centre.
On the basis of requests received from Qatari authorities for travel documents of Indian nationals at the Deportation Centre, the embassy has issued 22 Emergency Certificates (ECs) in January.
The embassy also issued 18 air tickets to Indian nationals in distress for their return to India last month (January).
Indian Community Benevolent Forum (ICBF) continues to help Indian workers through various welfare measures, including provision of air tickets, financial assistance and medical help.
The assistance given by the ICBF to Indian nationals during January included 4 air tickets for destitute workers.
Arvind  Patil, president of Indian Community Benevolent Forum, also attended the session.
On Friday, the ambassador inaugurated a free medical camp for low income workers, organised by the lndian Community Benevolent Forum with the support of the embassy. It was held in association with the Indian Doctors Club and Aster Medical Centre.
Apart from Indian expatriates, a number of other Asian nationalities also availed of the camp held at the Aster Medical Centre premises in lndustrial Area.
It was informed that nearly 400 workers benefited from the medical camp at which voluntary service was rendered by several doctors and paramedics, Indian community organisations; students of Indian Schools and embassy officials.
Ambassador interacted with a large number of workers and volunteers. An official of National Human Rights Committee of Qatar was also present at the Camp.
The embassy also operated a ‘Help Desk’ to attend to any urgent consular and labour issues of the workers at the venue of the camp.