KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: Ministry of Health officials must devise a plan to keep family doctors at the health centers, as the number of health centers nationwide is currently 120 and the doctors able to speak Arabic are few, reports Al-Jareeda daily.

A source was quoted as saying the ministry must prepare doctors who hold health management certificate for hospital management, particularly at this period when Kuwait is planning to build five new hospitals.
He wondered if recruiting expatriate doctors who can not speak Arabic is the right solution while their standard may not even qualify them for working in these centers.

He also said the ministry allows some doctors to work in central administration, even though officials have received letters from various health centers which are in need of these doctors.
He stressed that doctors are national wealth and they shouldn’t be left to waste, so the ministry must maintain them. “Why do Kuwaiti family doctors experience this difficulty unlike their colleagues in the hospitals, disregarding huge sums the government spent on them”?