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Kuwait’s Health Ministry announced the return of non-essential surgery at public and private hospitals and specialized health centers nationwide from Sunday due to the significant drop in coronavirus infections.<\/p>\n

“Allowing the return of operations comes due to the improvement in the epidemiological situation and the decrease in the number of COVID-19 patients, praise be to God, and the ministry’s keenness to provide the best medical services,” ministry spokesman Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement on Wednesday. The decision was taken based on the recommendations of Undersecretary Dr. Mustafa Reda following the ministry’s assessment of the situation, the official said.<\/p>\n

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Kuwait’s Health Ministry announced the return of non-essential surgery at public and private hospitals and specialized health centers nationwide from Sunday due to the significant drop in coronavirus infections. “Allowing the return of operations comes due to the improvement in the epidemiological situation and the decrease in the number of COVID-19 patients, praise be to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local"],"yoast_head":"\nKuwait set to re-allow non essential surgery amid drop in Covid cases - TimesKuwait<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/kuwait-set-to-re-allow-non-essential-surgery-amid-drop-in-covid-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kuwait set to re-allow non essential surgery amid drop in Covid cases - 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