Kuwait: Minor accidents to be settled by reconciliation
KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s relations and security media department announced that starting today Sunday, June 3 - articles 2/41 and 5/41 of the traffic law and its amendments pertaining dealing with minor traffic accidents in police stations will be put into practice to save time and effort. The department added that these accidents will be settled inside police stations by reconciliation.
According to the new measure, drivers involved in minor accidents will only have to photograph their vehicles and immediately move them to avoid blocking traffic and head to the nearest police station without having to wait for a police patrol to respond, the ministry’s investigations manager Maj Gen Fahd Al-Doussary stressed.
“Drivers involved in minor accidents will be fined according to article 133 if they do not remove their vehicles,” he warned, noting that this measure aims at resolving the problem of traffic congestions resulting from minor accidents. This measure will initially start from the Capital governorate before being gradually implemented in other governorates.
It has been almost six years since my beloved mother passed away. The seventh anniversary of her death will fall on Nov 15, 2018. Bringing this up is so painful to me. I still remember the day when she died. I will never forget when I took her to Rumaithiya polyclinic, where she passed away.
Aside from high blood pressure and diabetes that are dominant among many citizens and expats, my mother had no medical complaints. There, on that day, my mother was changing the dressing on her toes. She was completely relaxed knowing that it was going to be the last dressing change. Suddenly, she screamed and stopped talking, and liquid dribbled out of her mouth.
I have no idea what happened. Did the polyclinic doctors fail to conduct first aid procedures? A doctor entered the dressing room to check on her and said her pulse was very weak. They called an ambulance, which we followed in panic to Mubarak Hospital, where three ICU doctors failed to revive my mother’s heart. Did they do their best to save the patient?
I hear a lot about influential people who always get great special treatment everywhere. Destiny is not accepted for those people, for whom doctors usually spare no efforts until the patient is saved, which I believe never happened with my mother.