Kidney dialysis added to Kuwaiti patients’ treatment abroad program
Stop multimillion-dollar grants to other countries: Lawmaker
KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah issued a ministerial resolution amending the regulations of the government-sponsored treatment abroad program for Kuwaiti citizens. The new amendments included adding kidney dialysis for patients dispatched for treatment for other diseases who happen to need it without having to be examined by a committee specialized in kidney dialysis.
The amendments also included paying treatment expenses for patients hospitalized for over two weeks with road accident injuries, severe fractures, burns, heart attacks and strokes, allowing transplant patients to suspend treatment for a maximum of three months and later resume it without having to be reexamined, authorizing overseas treatment managers to facilitate the travel of patients and their escorts and authorizing health offices to extend cancer treatment for a maximum of six months.
In other news, Mubarak Al-Kabeer hospital’s manager Dr Nadia Al-Jumaa strongly denied social media allegations about a Syrian family stealing oxygen cylinders from the hospital. Jumaa urged all social media networks to verify the content of various posts and
check their validity from official sources.
Stop grants
Commenting on Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development’s signing of an agreement to grant Egypt a $15 million loan to build four water desalination plants, MP Osama Al-Shaheen stressed that it is a public and parliamentary demand as well as a national necessity to stop all grants worth millions of dollars to Egypt and other countries. On another concern, Shaheen demanded immediate educational reform after only three Kuwaiti physics teachers graduated this year compared to 3,000 social studies teachers, adding that it is no longer acceptable that only 59 percent intermediate school and 46 percent secondary school teachers are Kuwaitis.
Public universities
The government started preparing the charter of regulations for the government universities law, said official sources, expecting regulations to be completed by the end of the year. The sources added that the government will form a special academic committee to prepare to build new universities - in northern Jahra and Sabah Al-Ahmad - to meet the new urban expansions and the expected population increase. The sources stressed that the government is considering building a new university to teach only the specialties Kuwait will need over the next 50 years, such as renewable energy, electronics, project management, development and other majors.
Panel mulls water guns’ ban
Water guns
The Municipal Council’s technical committee is scheduled to hold a meeting on Tuesday to discuss several topics including the Kazema project and banning the use of water guns and balloons during the national celebrations. The meeting’s agenda will also include a request by private universities to allocate land for private universities in Abu Halifa, in addition to various other proposals and topics.