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Kuwait insists on medical checkup for expats |
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Health
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:08 |
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KUWAIT, March 17 (KUNA) -- The Ministry of Health insists on subjecting expatriate workers to medical checkup and blood analyses in order to ensure health safety and security in the country
, a senior health official said here Wednesday.
"Health security in the country is a red line. The Ministry of Health cannot give up its right to conduct medical checkup for incoming laborers," the ministry's assistant undersecretary for public health, Yussif al-Nesf told KUNA.
The Kuwaiti official made the remarks in response to recent local press reports suggesting there were some violations of medical procedures for foreign workers, especially hepatitis C patients.
Dismissing such reports, the official said: "What has been reported are just old documents that date back to past years." The ministry has formed technical panels of specialized doctors and legal researchers with a view to checking the soundness and reliability of such medical procedures, he added.
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease affecting the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The infection is often asymptomatic, but once established, chronic infection can progress to scarring of the liver, and advanced scarring (cirrhosis) which is generally apparent after many years.
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact. - Kuna
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