KUWAIT CITY, Dec 24: The Ministry of Health has completed the establishment of a new cancer treatment center inside the Al-Sabah Health Zone, reports Alam Alyawm daily quoting sources.
The center, which has built by donation from a charity organization will be headed by the Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Services Affairs Dr Qais Al-Dowairi.
The center is equipped with the latest state of the art technology and is expected to be inaugurated over the coming period. The exact date has yet to be announced.
The center is poised to treat what it called ‘hopeless’ cases particularly among children.
Most of the patients who will treated at this center are those who are considered terminally ill and has less than six months to live.
Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Health it cannot prevent the spread of the swine flu virus in the country. The Ministry has also indicated there are a large number of cases of swine flu in all hospitals which have not been announced, reports Annahar daily.
The daily added three cases of the swine flu cases are reported from among children and that they are being treated at the Al-Sabah Hospital. Two of the children are being treated in a ward while the third is in the intensive care unit.
Al-Sabah Hospital is implementing the automation project and has already started entering data related to all files of the hospital and its affiliate centers, Al-Anba daily quoted Deputy Director of the hospital Dr Mahdi Al-Fadhil as saying.
More than 250 million files have to be uploaded and data entry work is going on both in the morning and evening shifts, he added.
All health information related to the patient, including all the medical tests and procedures he or she went through, will be recorded and archived, noted Al-Fadhil.