Mandatory tests for 24 professions

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Professional Qualifications Department recently finished setting tests for around 24 professions operating in the local labor market, and submitted the tests and conditions to Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih for approval.

According to the new testing system, laborers working in the specified professions would not be given access to the Kuwaiti labor market unless they pass the tests that are to include, general turners, vehicle mechanics, professional chefs, building painters, welders, electricity technicians, ventilation systems maintenance mechanics, automobile air conditioning technicians, assistant A/C technicians, assistant central A/C technicians, general pharmacists, X-ray technicians, medical lab technicians, nursing technicians, head nurses, aluminum smiths, furniture carpenters, pipefitters and pesticides technicians.

‘Chabreet Seyassi’

Security forces recently arrested a blogger who operated a Twitter account called ‘Chabreet Seyassi 2 (Political Matches 2). The man happens to be the brother of another blogger who was arrested on charges of offending His Highness the Amir through posts made on a Twitter account he operated under the handle ‘Chabreet Seyassi,’ among other charges. The second blogger was referred to the state security department for investigations with the same charges his brother is already facing.

Clinics’ licenses

The Ministry of Health’s Assistant Undersecretary for Private Medical Services Dr Mohammed Al-Khashti said that minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi had met with the Union of Owners of Private Medical Professions, and discussed increasing the validity of private health facilities’ licenses from two to five years. They also discussed doctors’ transfer within private sector medical facilities and certificates. Khashti added that the meeting also discussed issuing unified IDs for all private medical facilities’ staff members as well as interviewing doctors applying to work in the private sector.