Urged officials to rush to the opening of the center in the middle of next May - His Excellency the Minister of Health is doing an inspection visit to Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah health center

HE the Minister of Health Mr. Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi "Thursday," morning March 27, 2014, an inspection visit to the center, Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah area Barbar in order to find out the preparations and equipment center before it opened, accompanied by Assistant Undersecretary for Primary Care and Public Health Dr Mariam Al Jalahma, and Director health centers Sima Zainal, and the management team and engineering. He urged the Minister of Health on the urgency in the completion of all technical procedures and nursing, medical and maintenance so that the opening of the center before the holy month of Ramadan Which with the mid-May 2014, as will serve the center 32 residential compound in the northern governorate number is estimated at 45 thousand inhabitants, where start work place during the morning period beginning with the first few months of opening, and at the end of this year will be the work place during the morning and afternoon shifts. the Minister of Health emphasized during the inspection visit to the the center, which is created in collaboration with the Executive Office of Kuwait, that the center will contribute to ease the pressure on Budaiya and Jid Hafs health centers, and will contribute to the speed of getting sick and auditors to health services and treatment, and the highest and best quality, pointing out that there is a continuous follow-up and intensive by the Ministry of Health for the opening of the center as soon as possible. The minister assigned the competent authorities of the ministry to urgency the request of the deficiencies so that the ministry of the opening of the center in the near future. He also inspected During the visit, fittings sections of the health center and assure the readiness and availability of medical and nursing staff to work in it, as center includes all health departments, including 18 Clinic doctors, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy, and 8 clinics integrated diagnosis and treatment of teeth, and 3 bedroom vaccination, and 3 rooms for pregnant women and maternity care, and the Department of the laboratory, and pharmacy department, and the Department of Radiology, and the Department of social Research, to open these sections on a schedule set by the management center. It is worth mentioning that the cost of establishing the center amounted to 3.5 million dinars in addition to 1.5 million dinars tabbed buy furniture and medical equipment. As has been the completion of the procedures for the recruitment of medical staff and the nursing and administrative, and has been approved to hire at least 170 employees in nine departments, including doctors, nurses, and dentists, and specialist pharmacy, laboratory, and the coordinators of the medical records, X-ray, physical therapy, and Clinics sugar, and social research and health promotion, and maternal and child care, and clinics classification. It should also be noted that this health center will serve 32 blocks of the Northern Governate and will ease the pressure by 45% at the health centers of Budaiya and Jid Hafs and will contribute to the improvement of health services provided to citizens and residents alike. It also will be opened at 3 time phases, in the first phase will serve the health center during the morning only, and in the second phase of work will begin in the evening, and in the third phase the health center will work 24 hours a day.