KUWAIT, Feb 29: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry declared on Saturday that medical face masks will be available for distribution at the supplies storage centers throughout the country.

The measure is in line with instructions by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.
Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan held meetings with representatives of government departments for coordination on the masks' distribution.

The ministry said in a statement that the conferees had worked out a plan for the masks' distribution, with deployment of volunteers by the Public Authority for Youth.

The meeting involved the commerce undersecretary Abdullah Al-Afasi, the social affairs undersecretary Abdulaziz Al-Shuaib, the assistant undersecretary for medicines and food supervision Abdullah Al-Bader, the assistant undersecretary for administrative and financial affairs at the Civil Service Commission Bader Al-Hamad, Chairman of the Kuwaiti supplies company Salah Al-Klaib and representatives of the ministry of interior and defense (KUNA)