Kuwait Times

Jazeera Airways Raises Breast Cancer Awareness

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Jazeera Airways, the largest airline serving the Middle East out of Kuwait, in collaborat­ion with the Cancer Awareness National Campaign (CAN), recently hosted a breast cancer awareness lecture for its employees as part of its month long activities to spread awareness on breast cancer. Dr Amani Hussein, Oncologist from the Ministry of Health, shared her insights on the cancer, including the importance of its prevention as well as early detection.

CAN is sponsored by His Highness the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad AlJaber Al-Sabah , and the aim of this campaign is to organize regular lectures and public events to improve the understand­ing of cancer and provide preventive techniques and measures to the public. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, Jazeera Airways aimed to raise awareness about the seriousnes­s of the condition, through the help of CAN.

In support of this initiative, Dr Hussein commanded Jazeera Airways for their efforts and time and called on the employees to conduct annual mammograph­y tests. “Early detection of breast cancer helps increase cure rate by 90%, avoids

Leaders Group Company for Consulting and Developmen­t announced more hospitalit­y, catering and hotel equipment companies that have so far announced their intention to take part in Horeca Kuwait 2017 exhibition, which is due to be held early next year.

In this regard, Al-Zad Trading Group’s Chairman Abdullah Al-Nafisi said that this year’s exhibition is the fifth in which his company participat­es as a sponsor. He also stressed that Horeca had proved the significan­ce of specialize­d exhibition­s in promoting trade exchanges among companies, as well as highlighti­ng this vital line that is closely related to Kuwait’s developmen­t, housing projects and touristic plans. He added that the exhibition would be the largest gathering of specialize­d people under one roof.

Speaking about his group, Nafisi said that it is one of the biggest ‘full line’ suppliers mastectomy, chemothera­py, radiothera­py, as well as psychologi­cal and organic trauma,” explained Dr Hussein.

Dr Barakat, VP Marketing and Product at Jazeera Airways claimed that Jazeera Airways feels that the event is a great opportunit­y to help spread awareness to its employees, who will in turn extend their knowledge to the public.

“We are grateful to partner with CAN as they show their support for continuous cancer awareness in Kuwait. We sincerely thank Dr Amani Hussein for her informativ­e presentati­on that allowed Jazeera employees to take this matter more seriously and to provide them with easy ways to help detect the disease at earlier stages as well as overcome it at later stages. The enthusiast­ic feedback from our employees determined the success of the event.” Dr Barakat added.

To learn more about Jazeera Airways services, offers, promotions and destinatio­ns, customers can contact the Call Center on 177 or visit the airline’s website on www. jazeeraair­ways.com. Customers can also download the Jazeera Airways app on the iPhone or Android or Windows. to hotels and restaurant­s in Kuwait. he added that it was establishe­d in 1994 and became one Kuwait’s largest suppliers to hotels, restaurant­s and catering companies. Moreover, Nafisi called for facilitati­ng goods importing procedures in terms of customs and food testing labs in order to help improve the hotels and catering sector.

Horeca Kuwait 2017 is organized in collaborat­ion with the Hospitalit­y Services Company under auspices of the Informatio­n Minister and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salaman AlHumoud Al-Sabah. It takes place at Mishref Internatio­nal Fair grounds in the period of January 16-18, 2017.

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