‘Need to tackle corruption’
‘Millions down the drain’
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 30: Female lawmaker Safa’a Al-Hashem said the country is suffering from several problems and negative phenomena which should be tackled, reports Al-Shahed daily.
Al-Hashem listed the negative phenomena as the laptops contract signed by the Minister of Education worth KD 25 million because the computers have not yet been used, overseas medical treatment cost KD 28 million for persons who have not travelled and add to this, she said, the insurance paid to roughly 115
These agreements are part of the strategic partnership and cooperation between the two societies for the displaced “Syrian brothers from Aleppo,” Al-Sayed told KUNA.
They include providing 8,000 food packages, winter clothes for 5-14 children, heating oil, and blankets, he added.
The KRCS-QRCS cooperation projects also include 10 mobile clinics to offer medical services to refugees from Aleppo, supporting a field hospital, and providing three huge tanks of drinking water daily. In addition to assisting orphans, Al-Sayer noted.
On his part, Diab said that the QRCS started offering help to Syrian refugees in 2012 in neighboring countries, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.
This has covered health services, shelters, food security, water, non-food supplies, responding to emergencies, training and capability building, he added.
Also, Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) on Friday inked a memo of understanding (MoU) with the Turkish Red Crescent Society to examine relief projects in eastern Aleppo.
The MoU was signed by the KRCS Chairman Dr. Hilal Al-Sayer and the Turkish society’s chief, Dr Mehmet Gulluoglu, at the latter’s headquarters in the town of Gaziantep.
In remarks to KUNA, Dr Al-Sayer said the MoU aimed at examining programs for relieving Syrian refugees from eastern Aleppo. He also thanked the Turkish counterpart for providing facilities to the Kuwaiti philanthropic teams, namely the visit to the displaced in Idlib countryside.
For his part, Dr Gulluoglu said his association has launched several humanitarian operations near the border Bab Al-Hawa and Bab Al-Salam checkpoints, building camps, makeshift hospitals and schools in addition to providing food the refugees.
Earlier today, the KRCS signed agreements worth $2,465 million with Qatar’s Red Crescent Society (QRCS) to offer relief aid and medical supplies to the Syrian refugee families from eastern Aleppo.
Dr Al-Sayer signed the accords with the Director of Relief and International Development at QRCS Dr Khaled Diab, at the latter’s office in Gazinantep, south-western Turkey.
These accords are part of the strategic partnership and cooperation between the two societies for the displaced “Syrian brothers from Aleppo,” Dr. Al-Sayer told KUNA.
They include providing 8,000 food packages, winter clothes for 5-14 children, heating oil, and blankets, he added.
The KRCS-QRCS cooperation projects also include 10 mobile clinics to offer medical services to refugees from Aleppo, supporting a field hospital, and providing three huge tanks of drinking water daily. In addition to assisting orphans, Dr. Al-Sayer noted.
Dr Hilal Al-Sayer and QRCS Dr Khalid Diab signing the agreement.
Dr Hilal Al Sayer with his Turkish counterpart.
retirees, that does not cover dentures.
She wondered if it is reasonable to add an item of delivery and maternity within the list of retirees while the insurance does not include the heart diseases. She pointed out the health sector is suffering from several cases of corruption especially the Amiri Hospital.
She quoted the incident of her late mother who died recently due to medical error. She explained her mother died because the hospital staff administered her mother air instead of oxygen. clarified a Kuwaiti citizen went to Al-Salam Police Station on Wednesday evening over a traffic case. At the police station, a quarrel broke out between the citizen and a policeman of the station over another case in which the citizen is involved. The citizen insisted that he has no link to that case. Eventually, both sides filed a case against each other and were referred for further investigations.
The department affirmed that the ministry has taken necessary legal actions in this regard including checking the records of the CCTV cameras to determine the cause of the quarrel.
‘Officers under probe’:
Regarding the news that has been circulating on social media about two officers who were seen driving a patrol vehicle affiliated to Ministry of Interior, stopping a motorist and dealing with the latter in a manner that violated proper security procedures for questioning and checking, General Department of Public Relations and Media Security at Ministry of Interior said in a press statement issued by Ministry of Interior that the two officers have been referred for investigations and necessary action has been taken against them.