KUWAIT, April 28 (KUNA) -- Executive Director of the Central Apparatus for Illegal Residents' Affairs Yousef Saleh Al Fadalah reiterated Thursday the government's seriousness about addressing the problems of illegal residents. "This body was formed for this reason and our doors are open and we all ears to any complaint from anyone illegal resident," Fadalah told KUNA during a ceremony organized by the popular committee for monitoring illegal residents' human rights to honor him due to his body's role in ensuring the respect of llegal residents' human rights.
Fadalah thanked the popular committee for this honoring ceremony, noting that the Central Apparatus, formed only last year, had made considerable achievements. "From the very beginning of our work, we were aware of the needs of this category, thus we held several meeting to put solutions and discuss how to provide them with their needs," he said. The apparatus has helped solving the problem of official birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates and healthcare as well as children education. Fadalah said that the government passed a law allowing illegal residents to get hospitalized in free of charges at government hospitals. The government has also founded a special fund to financing illegal residents' children education in private schools. Upon proposals from the Central Apparatus, the government approved food rations for the illegal residents, he added. Fadalah, however, stressed that the neutralizing anybody is a sovereign decision. "We only present our reports and recommendations to the government, and it can decide whether they deserve the Kuwaiti nationality or not," he clarified. For his part, head of the popular committee Jaber Al-Fadali said the honoring comes as a show of gratefulness and appreciation of Fadalah's efforts to facilitate the life of the illegal residents and solve their problems.- Kuna