DECISIONS MADE BY HEALTH MINISTER UNRESEARCHED, NO EXPERTS CONSULTED

  • 19/08/2022

Kuwait City : Pharmacist Ali Hadi, the Secretary-General of the Kuwait Pharmaceutical Society, stated that "the Society does not accept the prejudice done to the rights of pharmacists and their due gains," noting that Dr. Khaled Al-Saeed, the Minister of Health, had repealed Resolution 230/2010 regarding allowing Kuwaiti pharmacists who obtained a licence to practise the profession of pharmacy in the sector. 


Al-Hadi noted that "the judiciary will be resorted to, to stop these unfair decisions which harm the rights of pharmacists," and that the decision "contradicts the government's tendency to encourage national energies to work in the private sector, and exposes 70 Kuwaiti pharmacists to losing their jobs in the private sector." Hadi stated yesterday that "It is more appropriate for the Ministry of Health to discuss with specialists, to find solutions that restore the balance for the pharmaceutical sector." He added that "Stopping the consideration of requests to grant licences to new pharmacies in the private sector, and requesting a licence to practise the profession of pharmacy, harms the pharmaceutical sector in the private sector."

He stressed that “the recent decisions of the Ministry of Health are ill-considered, and are issued without consulting the specialists, and in light of the continuation of this approach, we will be on the verge of a severe shortage in the provision of medicines, and a shortage of specialized labor in the pharmaceutical sector.”

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