Concern over ‘bachelors’ living in residential areas
Nod to visitor health insurance Doctors reject Hashem’s proposal
KUWAIT: Chairman of the structural planning committee at the Municipal Council Ali Al-Moussa warned what he described as the phenomenal spread of “bachelors” in residential areas, especially new ones. Moussa said the problem was chronic, without any serious measures by authorities to resolve it.
He added that “bachelors” previously lived in Khaitan and Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, but they are now found in Mahboula, Sabah Al-Ahmad, Rabiya and Omariya. “This is a violation of law number 125/1992,” he said, calling for more serious efforts to fight this occurrence. Moussa also claimed some citizens purchase houses in residential areas and rent them out to bachelors to make high profits.
Meanwhile, the parliamentary health affairs committee endorsed a report recommending imposing health insurance on foreigners visiting Kuwait for various reasons following the committee members’ unanimous consensus. According to the report and a proposal by MP Khalil Al-Saleh, articles 1,2, 4, 5 and 8 of law 1/1999 pertaining health insurance on foreigners will be amended to include those arriving in Kuwait temporarily and on various types of visit visas so that their stay is fully covered by special health insurance. The report also authorized the interior minister to set the conditions and regulations needed to impose the new insurance on visitors and decide those to be exempted.
Commenting on the proposed amendments, Saleh said that his proposal was more like an economic project that would earn the state new revenues, help private hospitals, reduce the burden on public ones and create more job opportunities for Kuwaitis. Interior ministry representatives said around 621,181 visitors visited Kuwait in 2016.