Q8NRI.com

Kuwait: The Assistant Undersecretary for Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Health Abdul Fattah Al-Asmawy confirmed the new salary scale for expatriate doctors will be paid within the current month, following the Finance Department’s completion of the transactions of medical consultants and junior specialists.

However, he stressed the transaction of senior consultants is still underway, reports Al- Seyassah daily.

Al-Asmawy added the increment varies among the medical practitioners, with consultants receiving KD 270, and senior specialists getting KD 650. Specialists will be given KD 560; senior registrars will be paid KD 400, registrars KD 260, and assistant registrars KD 250.

In the meantime, Al-Asmawy denied the finance department is responsible for delay in the payment of the new salary scale for nurses, indicating the department has not received the transactions of Kuwaiti or expatriate nurses.

Agencies add:
Kuwait is keen on providing all care and attention to those with special needs, and the new law for those with disabilities has created the aspired for balance between ambitions and capabilities, experts said.

At a symposium held at Kuwait Journalists Association Tuesday evening on ‘People With Special Needs Through Eyes of Society and Law’, they agreed that the government and the parliament accorded special interest to the needs of this importance segment of the society.

Supervisor at the Higher Council for the Disabled, Essam Haidar, said that Kuwait had spared no effort in providing care for those with disabilities, adding that being challenged did not necessarily hinder productivity and that these people had the same rights and obligations with the society as anyone else.

Haidar emphasized the importance of the just-passed law on the rights of those with disabilities, comprising 72 articles listing social, civil and political rights of those with special needs.

This law will change the lives of tens of thousands of Kuwaiti and expatriate people with special needs living in the country to the better, whether at schools, hospitals, social care centers or government housing facilities, he explained.

On his part, Assistant Executive Director of the Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching Dr Essa Al-Jassem said that the new law would promote the rights of those with disabilities, within development, vocational, training and integration efforts.

He noted that in a comparative study between the new Kuwaiti law and other laws in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), he said the Kuwaiti law was among the best and underscored the importance of providing social and civil rights and needs to the disabled, as well as financial and moral support.

In another development, the Ministry of Health is expected to announce the names of heads of medical departments it selected a few days ago, indicating the decision will be approved formally by Thursday, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting reliable sources.
The same sources added the ministry’s delay in the selection of the heads of departments is attributable to the significance of persons who currently occupy the position.
ArabTimes