Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital conducts 1st endoscopic tumor-removing surgery

Kuwait launches third phase of fiber optics project

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 17, (KUNA): Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital has conducted a complicated endoscopic tumor-removal surgery for the first time.

The announcement was made by Dr Abdullah Al-Haddad, a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at the Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, in Hawally Governorate, in a press statement on the occasion of hospital’s hosting of the fourth workshop on colorectal diseases.

He pointed out that the three-day workshop, which started Monday with the participation of a large number Kuwaiti and foreign doctors including several from the US, comprised several lectures and difficult surgeries such as tumorremoval.

Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Minister of State for Housing Affairs Dr Jenan Boushehri signed a contract on Wednesday with an international consulting firm to study, design and prepare documents for the third phase of the fiber optics project.

The Ministry of Services said in a press statement that it got necessary approvals from Central Agency for Public Tenders (CAPT), the Fatwa and Legislation Department and State Audit Bureau (SAB).

The Ministry’s Director of Public Relations Department Ahmad AlHusseini said that the third phase of the fiber optics project is to replace the internet network from copper cables to fiber optic cables, covering the remaining areas of Kuwait.