Strict check launched on hospitals

KUWAIT CITY, March 3: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has formed 29 committees for medical, technical and administrative specialties to carry out supervision and inspection work in hospitals, medical centers, private clinics and hospitals that support the medical profession in the private medical sector, reports Al-Anba daily.

The committees will ensure that the requirements established in hospitals, medical centers and clinics in the private medical sector are applied, as well as check patient records in private clinics and ensure the correctness and integrity of procedures that have been applied to also ensure that provisions of Law No. 70 of 2020 regarding the practice of the profession of medicine and the auxiliary professions and rights of patients and health facilities are not violated.

Drugs found in car: Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) are looking for an unidentified young man for abandoning two young women when he saw a police patrol approaching. According to the security sources, the two young women were with the man in his vehicle and they were under the influence of alcohol.

However, when the young man saw police approaching he got behind the steering wheel and stepped on the gas pedal. In a vain attempt to escape he crashed into a palm tree which forced him to abandon his vehicle and escape on foot. Inside the vehicle police found a quantity of shabu, narcotic pills and drug abuse tools.