Hearing on petition filed for health fees revocation today
No idea why maid attempted suicide: sponsor
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 3: The Administration Court will Wednesday look into the petition filed by Lawyer Hashim Al-Rifai against the Minister of Health Dr Jamal Al-Harbi in which Lawyer Al-Rifai called for the revocation of the new charges on the health services offered to expatriates.
In his address to the minister, he said the Decision No. 293/2017 issued in August regarding the new health charges imposed on expatriates who are already registered under the health insurance system will have negative repercussions on citizens more than expatriates.
Lawyer Al-Rifai insisted that this decision will also negatively impact the reputation of Kuwait especially since Kuwait is known to be a peaceful and humanitarian nation whose leader, His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the Global Humanitarian Leader, and that there is not a single part of the world where Kuwaiti humanitarian and relief works have not reached including those inflicted with natural disasters and wars regardless of religion, race and language.
He said the action of Minister of Health, despite all these humanitarian works of the country, to go ahead with increasing the charges for health services required by expatriates in Kuwait was contrary to the Kuwaiti Constitution and laws that regulate health services.
Lawyer Al-Rifai stressed that Law No. 1/1999 forbids the minister from imposing new fees on those who are covered under health insurance, and that no ministerial decision should go against the existing law.
He added that the ministerial decision also violates the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Maid in suicide bid:
An Asian woman tried to commit suicide by consuming large number of pills inside the kitchen of her sponsor’s house in Qurain area.
According to sources, the Kuwaiti woman went to her kitchen to find her housemaid on the ground with the medicine pack next to her. She immediately reported the incident to the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior. Paramedics rushed to the location with securitymen and referred her to Adan Hospital for treatment where she was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit.
When questioned, the sponsor said she had no idea why her housemaid would do this, adding that the housemaid did not face any problems in the house.
4 for deportation: General Traffic Department, as part of its
efforts to maintain the safety of road users and to implement the traffic law, carried out several surprise traffic campaigns in all governorates of Kuwait for ten days from September 17 to September 27.
According to a press statement issued by the Public Relations and Security Media Department of Ministry of Interior, the campaigns resulted in the issuance of 31,890 traffic citations, impounding of 911 vehicles, detention of 13 individuals in traffic custody over grave traffic violations and the transfer of four expatriates to the deportation center for driving without a license.
The General Traffic Department affirmed the continuation of such traffic campaigns in all governorates round the clock to implement the law and ensure the safety of road users.
‘My uncle’s kids’: “These are my uncle’s children” - was how an
Egyptian driver justified to a citizen who “guards a state property jealously” when the citizen caught him transporting people who had nothing to do with Ministry of Education in a ministry bus after he finished transporting students to their destinations, reports Al-Rai daily.
When the citizen saw a bus belonging to the ministry with unfamiliar passengers onboard, he was surprised, as the bus was reserved only for students and employees of the ministry.
He took a video before stopping the driver and threatened to report the incident. However, the driver tried to justify his action by saying, “These are my uncle’s children”.
In order to enforce the law and hold the driver accountable, the citizen published the video he had taken on social media so that it will reach officials from Ministry of Education and necessary action will be taken against those who illegally exploit state property.