Kuwait Times

Minister signs MoU with British hospital

MoH seeks to draw world medical staff to Kuwait

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Kuwait Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi signed a Memorandum of Understand­ing (MoU) with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London, with Kuwaiti Ambassador in the UK Bader Al-Awadhi attending. The Kuwaiti Health Office’s Chief, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Rasheed, and the minister’s accompanyi­ng delegation attended the event. Speaking to KUNA, the minister said the MoU aims at sharing expertise, reducing the number of overseas patients, drawing world medical staff to Kuwait, creating cooperatio­n opportunit­ies, and training Kuwaiti medics.

He commended the hospital as being one of the most significan­t European hospitals for incurable diseases, children’s cancer, organ transplant­s, and intractabl­e surgeries. The minister hoped that such endeavors would reflect on health care quality for citizens and residents in Kuwait as part of the Kuwaiti political leadership’s attention to patients and to providing better health services to them.

He added that his field tour of the British hospital, visits to Kuwaiti patients, and meetings with their families would promote the Health Ministry’s humanitari­an role, whether at this hospital or other hospitals. For his part, Chief Executive of the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Mathew Shaw, said the partnershi­p with the Kuwait Health Ministry was launched in 2010 and has witnessed numerous mutual visits and training of Kuwaiti medics.

He added that this partnershi­p would contribute to providing more exchanges of expertise and upgrading the quality of health services for children. Great Ormond Street Hospital

(GOSH) is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals. Since its formation in 1852, the hospital has been dedicated

to children’s healthcare and to finding new and better ways to treat childhood illnesses.

 ?? ?? Kuwait Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi signs a Memorandum of Understand­ing (MoU) with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London.
Kuwait Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi signs a Memorandum of Understand­ing (MoU) with Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in London.

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