Page 8 - Al-Rashed Newsletter June 19

KUWAIT THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
KUWAIT NEWS

Kuwait officially enters in list of world highest temperatures record
Kuwait officially entered the list of the world’s highest standard temperatures, the
UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) experts said on Wednesday. Head of
the Meteorology Department at the Kuwait Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) Dr Hassan Dashti told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the WMO
commission of experts adopted, at a meeting earlier today, an official decision that
the highest temperature recorded was at Mitribah, northeastern Kuwait, that
reached 53.9 degrees Celsius on July 21, 2016.

Hashem slams ‘birth tourists’; maternity charges to be hiked
MP Safa Al-Hashem yesterday accused expatriates of being the cause for long lines
at hospitals and called to send them to hospitals in Farwaniya and Jleeb Al-
Shuyoukh, two of Kuwait’s poorest neighborhoods. Hashem made the remarks
when she was commenting on the response of Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-
Sabah to one of her questions on overcrowding at maternity hospitals in the country.
She claimed that overcrowding was because of the large numbers of expatriate
women, claiming that some of them come from outside Kuwait on visit visas
especially for delivery here to enjoy good and almost free services at public
hospitals. “An expatriate woman with her belly 10 meters ahead of her comes just
10 days before birth,” she told the National Assembly. She said that these women
are then admitted at public hospitals, given excellent services and then they walk
away with their babies “against the payment of just KD 3”.

Source: Kuwait Times, Arab Times