500 Pakistani Doctors And Nurses To Assist Kuwait Against Coronavirus

The Ministry of Health (MoH) will bring in 500 doctors and nurses from Pakistan to be the first medical team to arrive in the next few weeks to support the Kuwaiti medical health team to handle the coronavirus, after the completion of all procedures for bringing them into the country within days, Al Jarida reports.

This is being done in preparation of a possible scenario of a second wave of the coronavirus, amid fears that one will strike in a similar situation in a number of countries around the world during the next few months

The daily said, quoting informed health sources, that the Ministry of Health will, in the coming days, will welcome the assistance of a number of medical and nursing teams specialized in intensive care, anesthesia, chest diseases and nursing, from outside Kuwait, to support Kuwaiti medical personnel in facing the coronavirus.

The ministry has drawn up two scenarios to deal with the pandemic in the next few weeks, the first if there is no second wave of the pandemic, with citizens and expats adhering to health requirements and precautionary measures, while the second scenario is if Kuwait is exposed to a second wave of the pandemic, it requires specialized medical and nursing teams from outside Kuwait to support the country’s medical personnel in facing the virus.

The daily announced that 500 doctors and nurses medical team from Pakistan is to be the first medical team to arrive in the next few weeks. In the past 4 months, MoH has hired a number of qualified medical personnel from abroad, including Bangladesh, Jordan and Cuba.

The national medical teams have played a prominent role in addressing and confronting the pandemic, since the beginning of the epidemic about six months ago, and were praised by the World Health Organization and other international and regional health organizations.

 

SOURCE : TIMES KUWAIT

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