Kuwait lifts ban placed on vacancies for expat doctors, nurses and technicians
04:22PM Tue 2 Jan, 2018
KUWAIT - Civil Service Commission (CSC) has lifted ban placed on 127 vacancies for expatriates in the Ministry of Health, reports Al-Anba daily.
In a letter to the Ministry of Health which the daily obtained a copy, CSC stated the decision affects 36 vacant positions for doctors, 74 nurses, 16 technicians and one pharmacist. It notified the ministry against filling those vacancies until the salaries of former employees have been paid.
It also required the Ministry of Finance to keep the vacancies open on the Health Ministry’s budget for fiscal year 2016/2017. It reiterated the above-stated jobs became vacant since July 11, 2017 until Oct 31, 2017.
Meanwhile, some 120 Kuwaiti medical scholarship holders in Canada have criticized the decision of Civil Service Commission (CSC) to cut down their stipends by 20 percent starting from January 2018, reports Al-Qabas daily.
Several of those scholarship holders consider the decision unfair; especially as they accepted the offer go abroad due to related benefits that include allowance. They lamented failure of CSC to consider the growing inflation rate reaching 19 percent high over the past 12 years — according to the Canadian Prices Indicator (CPI).
Source: Zawya.com
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