The Civil Service Commission has lifted the ban on non-Kuwaitis filling 625 vacancies in the Ministry of Health. In its letter addressed to the Ministry of Health, the CSC stated that the jobs for which the ban was lifted is for 77 doctors, 485 nursing staff, 52 technicians and 11 pharmacists.

As reported by Al-Anba daily, the CSC requested that the Ministry of Health not fill these positions before completing the legal period for which salaries were paid to their outgoing staff.