Hind Al-Sabeeh

KUWAIT: Minister of Social Affairs and Labor and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh issued a ministerial decision annulling a previous decree to dissolve the Kaifan Co-op Society's board of directors. The new decision, which seemingly came in response to a grilling motion filed in parliament against Sabeeh, urged the appointed board to hand over all documents and society-related work to the previous board within three days.

Meanwhile, the ministry's assistant undersecretary for co-op societies affairs Sheikhah Al-Adwani announced opening a registry for candidates running in elections for co-op societies whose boards had been dissolved over serious financial and administrative violations. Adwani explained that board elections will be held in Abdullah Al-Mubarak, Doha, Sulaibikhat, Subahiya, Dasma and Bneid Al-Gar, Wafra and Sharq co-op societies, and voters will choose nine-member boards in each. Adwani explained that supplementary elections will be held where some board members were relieved from office in Jahra, Mubarak Al-Kabeer and Qurain and Saad Al-Abdullah co-op societies.

Fabrications

His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah's attorney Emad Al-Saif denied social media reports claiming that his client had met with the families of convicts indicted in the Abdaly cell case, and described those allegations as "fabrications". Saif stressed that HH Sheikh Nasser highly respects the judiciary and has full trust in sentences passed by its honorable and fair judges. Saif said allegations on Twitter that Sheikh Nasser met the families in the presence of MP Adnan Abdulsamad are completely untrue and stressed that he will take legal measures against those promoting such rumors.

Complicated surgery

Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah yesterday conducted a complicated surgery to implant a cochlea in a six-year-old girl. The minister stressed in a statement after the operation that his ministerial duties will not come in the way of performing his humanitarian duties as a surgeon. Sheikh Basel added that the two-hour surgery was held at Zain Hospital, where he was assisted by Kuwaiti doctors. He added that the child's condition is now stable. Sheikh Basel said that such surgeries reflect advances in Kuwait's health system, adding that the Ministry of Health is on track towards relying on Kuwaiti medical staff to perform complicated surgeries in Kuwait, and thus reduce the need to dispatch patients abroad for treatment.

By Meshaal Al-Enezi