KUWAIT: The comprehensive court yesterday annulled an administrative decision issued by the Ministry of Health (MoH) terminating a doctor and halting his recruitment procedures. Informed sources explained that MoH had recruited an expatriate doctor and brought him from his country to work in a public hospital's casualty department. But he was later suspended on accusations made by an investigating committee that he had committed a fatal error that led to a patient's death.

The sources added that the doctor's lawyer Khaled Taher argued that his client had previously been referred to court for a similar accusation, of which he was acquitted by both the first instance and the appeal courts. He added that MoH had abusively double-punished the doctor by salary deduction and later by termination, although investigations rejected that the patient's death due to his mistake.

Closed companies

Residency affairs' detectives discovered 17 closed companies sponsoring 102 laborers in violation of the law during a recent campaign, the Ministry of Interior's relations and security media department announced yesterday.

By Meshaal Al-Enezi and Hanan Al-Saadoun