Health Minister encourages full return to schools in Kuwait

Health Minister encourages full return to schools in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Minister of Health Dr Khaled Al-Saeed encouraged the full return of students to schools, pointing out that this will be done in cooperation with the ministry of education. The coronavirus pandemic did not end yet, but it is declining, the minister said yesterday, stressing that the decision for students’ full return to schools was in hands of the ministry of education. Coronavirus cases have continued steep decline in Kuwait over the last two weeks.

Meanwhile, Dr Saeed said that health security is an integral part of national security, underlining that countries’ reliance on their local capabilities and resources in case of emergency is extremely vital. This came in his speech during a ceremony held by the Kuwait Saudi Pharmaceutical (KSP) on the inauguration of the first line to produce 26 pharmaceutical products owned by Abbott Laboratories, in implementation of the agreement to localize the manufacture of these products.

One of the most vital goals of the ministry is to start the first step to manufacture important medicines in Kuwait to meet local and possibly regional needs in the near future, Dr Saeed stressed. This stage is being started with the US company Abbott, which has initiated cooperation with KSP to