The government told MPs that their demand to resolve the demographic imbalance problem is a top priority for the Cabinet, informed sources said. The sources also explained that demands to restrict public hospital services’ to citizens alone would be done gradually, because private hospitals are currently incapable of absorbing the huge numbers of expats.

The National Assembly in its ordinary session Wednesday debated on the government work program during which several MPs stressed on the importance of government commitment to implement the program based on the time-table and financial costs as specified in the program.

Public Authority for Manpower affirmed that serious efforts are ongoing to implement 100 percent Kuwaitization in governmental sectors, and gradually replace expatriates working in administrative positions in the private sector with citizens at a rate of ten percent annually over a period of ten years.

The Ministry of Interior has written to the Ministry of Health to correct the administrative error which it has been committing for the past 17 years, the error that has cost the State Treasury millions of dinars.

Insurance companies are deliberately ignoring the comprehensive document concerning bearing the costs of accidents and obtaining reports from owners of cars over high-cost damages, reports Al-Shahed daily quoting informed sources.

Director General of Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) Musaed Al-Asousi affirmed the keenness of PACI to develop its mechanisms and improve its services in line with latest technologies, whether in its interaction with the public or in the services it offers beneficiaries in both public and private sectors.

New developments at health ministry: contract termination of the firm conducting medical tests for laborers - transferring of 40 expatriates and Bedouin employees to other departments in a bid to combat manipulation, slackness, and interference in decisions, and corruption - MP Safaa Al- Hashim has officially submitted the proposal she announced last week suggesting that expatriates should not be given free medicines in the hospital.

About 83 percent of expatriates, which is more than 1.2 million expatriates, working in the public and private sectors do not hold university- level educational qualifications, as per recent official statistics.

Nuwaiseeb Road Construction Project valued at KD169 million, which was earlier rejected by State Audit Bureau, has been approved by the Council of Ministers, reports Al-Nahar. The daily quoting sources from the Ministry of Public Works said a letter was sent to the Council of Ministers to resolve the issue, and in response, approved the project.

Ministry of Interior has informed the relevant investigation committee of the National Assembly that the search for the missing 11 containers out of the total 13 smuggled containers is ongoing, parliamentary sources say.