Kuwait Cannot Offer Free Health Care For Ever - The Rich Must Shoulder The Cost

As the State is no longer able to provide free treatment in its current form, Faisal Al-Mejil, Head of the Medicine Importers Union, said the state must consider setting up treatment categories so that those who are financially well-off bear part of the treatment costs. As the state cannot continue to provide free treatment to all segments of society, reports Al-Rai daily. "A capable person must be placed in the right position to ensure the health sector is supported as much as possible," Faisal Al- Mejil said in an interview. It is more dangerous for the poor to use this endlessly-free service than for the rich.

When it comes to providing free services, it is impossible to compare an individual whose salary is KD 600 with the one whose income is MDL 1 million. This is true not just for health services, but for all services as well. There is a possibility that this stage will not end in a year or two. We must start thinking about it today and put solutions in place, or at least create a timetable for addressing it if we want to reach it in 20 years. The state has provided free treatment for 60 years.

The treatment system changes every year as medicines become more expensive and the population increases, resulting in a deficit in the medicine budget, as it is not increased regularly. Budgetary allocations have already reached KD 450 million. It must be a qualitative change so that it does not affect the type and quality of medicines. It never happened that drug supply companies linked their debts to the Ministry of Health, as between 80 and 90 percent of the supply is regular.

However, the sign that one or two companies stop supplying until they receive their dues must be read well, not only by the Ministry of Health, but by the state in general.” He affirmed that the prices of some medicines in Kuwait are high, which is a result of the size of the market and the rate of operational costs in terms of the rate of salaries, rents and storage, adding that it harmonizes with the surrounding countries, especially the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

 

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