Foreign construction workers are seen on a building site in Kuwait City. Image for illustrative purpose.
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KUWAIT - Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Sabeeh yesterday formed a supreme consultative committee to look into and resolve problems of manpower in the country, with the main aim of fighting visa trading.
Health Minister Jamal Al-Harbi meanwhile will lay on Wednesday the foundation stone of the first hospital run by a private company to provide medical care to expatriates.
The supreme labor committee consists of representatives of the government and also employers and workers as well, in addition to manpower experts. The committee will be entrusted to study all problems relating to manpower in the country and make proposals to resolve key labor problems, especially visa trading and the recruitment of unskilled expatriate workers.
Meanwhile, the new hospital for expatriates only will be constructed south of Sabahiya by the Health Assurance Hospitals Co (Daman), a public private partnership (PPP) company.
The company plans to build several other hospitals in other governorates with the ultimate objective of relieving public hospitals to provide medical care to citizens only. The new medical system for expatriates was approved by the National Assembly amid increasing calls to allocate public hospitals for the treatment of Kuwaitis only. The new system requires expatriates to pay health premiums to benefit from the Daman hospitals.
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