KUWAIT: Many of the senior nurses employed with the Ministry of Health
are patiently waiting to receive salary increments that were promised years ago. “They promised salary upgrades a long time ago. They said again that we would definitely receive salary increments this month. How true is this - we don’t know as yet. We were [...]

GENEVA — Kuwait underscored Wednesday the importance of boosting international efforts for the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria - the most vicious diseases in the world - and working to increase preventative and awareness programs in this area.

KUWAIT: The five-year development plan number 2009/2010 - 2013/2014 will be aimed at raising the living standards of Kuwaiti citizens in all fields. Also, the population rate of Kuwaiti citizens is expected to rise from 31% in 2008 to 34% at the end of the plan period. Its population is expected to touch 3.6 million.

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works is currently working on a project to construct six multipurpose parking lots for the Ministry
’s hospitals. This is in addition to creating more inter-connected passageways to shift patients who have undergone surgical procedures. This project will cost around KD 18 million.

KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday confirmed the country’s first cases of swine flu in four Kuwaitis who returned from the United States on Saturday. “I’d like to announce the first case of H1N1 virus in Kuwait,” Ministry of Health (MoH) spokesman Dr Yousef Al-Nisf said earlier yesterday at the ministry’s headquarters in Shuwaikh. He said the patient [...]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reportedly imported 100 Swine Flu detection kits at a total cost of KD 190,000. Each kit can be used to conduct tests for the H1N1 Swine Flu virus on 10,000 individuals, a MoH official explained.

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health (MoH) announced the appointment of Dr. Yousef Al-Nisf, currently the Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Services, to the post of official spokesman for the ministry. The appointment followed a meeting of the ministry’s council of undersecretaries headed by minister Dr Helal Al-Sayer, where the ministry’s strategy for the forthcoming period was [...]

KUWAIT — A medical services company was set up with a capital of KD 1 million, reported the state’s official gazette, Al-Kuwait Al-Yawm.

KUWAIT: A health official said here yesterday that the Kuwait Central Blood Bank (KCBB) receives around 60,000 blood donors and prepares around 200,000 units of plasma and blood annually. Dr. Reem Al-Roudhan, the head of the Ministry of Health’s (MoH)
blood transfusion department, also revealed that the KCBB was praised in a recent report issued by [...]

KUWAIT: Head of Islamic Research at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Awqaf, Mohammed Al-Omar, recently said that his department upheld the importance of helping those with special needs. This, he said, stemmed from Islamic teachings, which maintain that those in need of help should be aided in whatever ways possible.