Overseas treatment has stopped … but life has not stopped
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 23: It’s been over eight months since Kuwait started the fight against Corona virus pandemic, during which it closed the airport for months, imposed a curfew and other strict conditions in various aspects of life, but the most obvious aspect is dispensing with more than six months of “treatment abroad” without it affecting the health system, reports Al-Anba daily.
The annual budget for overseas treatment is estimated at hundreds of millions of dinars and the file is considered the subject of constant controversy with its interference amid accusations that it opens door to corruption and wastage of public money, especially with the scandals that affected a number of Kuwaiti foreign offices in several countries.
In this regard, observers considered “the cessation of overseas treatment in the last period and the unaffected health system and plans for treating patients at home raise logical questions about the real need spending hundreds of millions over the years on services that have been present in Kuwait.
They noted that recent months have proven all diseases can be treated locally and that Kuwait is really capable of dispensing with the entire treatment file abroad, while saving hundreds of millions of dinars to develop the health system in Kuwait by building more hospitalsor using international expertise internally instead of exchange abroad.
In a related development, informed sources stated the importance of the recent decision of Ministry of Health to re-establish the specialized committees for treatment abroad for urgent and emergency cases- not a step back to spending hundreds of millions.
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