KUWAIT: Chairman of Kuwait Teachers Society Mutee' Al-Ajmi said that he met the Ministry of Education's (MoE) assistant undersecretary for public education affairs Fatima Al-Kandari to discuss rescheduling this year's high school final exams. Ajmi added that it was agreed to hold the exams ahead of schedule in a way that would not affect students' best interests. Following this agreement, the ministry is expected soon to officially announce organizing the finals before the holy month of Ramadan which starts mid-May.

Medicine practice

Kuwait Medical Association's (KMA) Secretary General Dr Mohammed Al-Qenae announced the completion of the draft of the medicine practice law, adding that the draft law had been discussed in parliament and that the Ministry of Health (MoH) has already started taking measures to pass it. Speaking on the sidelines of a symposium held by KMA on 'Doctors' Legal Responsibility' within the activities of Kuwait Surgeons Syndicate's 5th Conference and the 6th Surgeons Conference, Qenae said a joint committee had been formed to review the law and that the committee recommended merging all related laws.

Qenae said that the symposium discussed doctors' legal responsibility and that KMA had accordingly coordinated with the comprehensive court, which agreed to hold joint workshops by KMA and the Judicial Studies Institute to brief both doctors and judges on the profession of medicine and the law. -Qenae added that the symposium opened with a lecture by medicine and law coach Dr Raed Sayyed Hashem, who talked about health-related bills. He added that MP Mohammed Al-Dallal reviewed the steps followed on tackling health-related bills at the parliamentary health affairs committee and stressed that the most important proposals currently being reviewed by the committee include a patients' rights bill and a bill on amending law number 25/1981. Qenae said the symposium also discussed medical errors.

By Meshaal Al-Enezi