Several held for practicing medicine ‘without’ licence
Plan unveiled to prevent forgery, manipulation of contracts
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 29: Whoever underestimates the law, practices medicine without a permit endangers the lives of patients, reports Al-Qabas daily.
This became a painful when an intensive campaign was carried out by the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) in coordination with a specialized team from the Residence Investigation Department, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry Health as it resulted in the arrest of domestics working as support staff with a plastic surgeon who was practicing the profession without a license.
The campaign is part of a move to modify the demographics and breaches committed by some private sector companies and residence traders and to limit the recruitment of marginal workers.
During the raid medical clinics in Salmiya 10 workers found in 3 clinics were holding domestic visa and worked as support staff using lasers during cosmetic surgery and others were working as beauticians without a licenses.
The campaign also resulted in the seizure of another group of workers who held visa Article 18 but were found to be unqualified or worked without a licence. Legal measures were taken against them and they were referred for investigation.
The inspection team monitored another set of violations in some medical clinics as some of them were holding family visa and had failed it to transfer to the company they worked.
The sponsors were notified of the violation in addition to transferring the file of the clinics to the legal authorities to force them to correct the conditions of the violators.
In one of the clinics, inspectors of the Medical Licensing Department of the Ministry of Health recorded a series of violations committed by doctors due to lack of the necessary licenses in addition to employing unqualified workers from India and the Philippines in nursing professions.
Meanwhile, head of the Egyptian Labor Office in Kuwait consultant Ahmad Ibrahim has unveiled a plan to prevent the forgery or manipulation of employment contracts for the Egyptian community here, reports Al-Anba daily.
Speaking to the daily, the consultant disclosed: “We took steps to prevent visa trading and manipulation of employment contracts by linking the Labor Office in Kuwait and the department tasked to verify employment contracts with the Ministry of Manpower in Egypt by registering code number for each contract, noting this code will be placed on all pages of the contract.”
He added the code number will be sent daily to Egypt by email including relevant information such as the employer, worker, profession, salary and other matters stipulated in the contract.
Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Dr Saleh Al-Aqil has issued a decision to form a committee to investigate the disparity and difference in the numbers of bedoun, between the registrant on the food ration card in the Ministry’s commercial branches, and what is registered with the Central System for Remedying the Situations of Illegal Residents, with an increase in the money spent to support the foodstuffs, as a result of the disparity in numbers for this category from the previous three years, reports Al-Rai daily.
The committee, whose formation stipulated that it submit a report at the end of its work to the Undersecretary of the Ministry within 30 days, which is chaired by the assistant undersecretary for technical support and planning, Nasser AlMutawa, and includes in its membership: adviser to Fatwa and Legislation Mona Al-Kandari, adviser to the office of the agent of companies and commercial licenses Dr Muhammad Al-Mutairi, Director of Legal Studies Department, Dhaif Al-Rashidi and a representative of the Kuwaiti Catering Company.