Kuwaiti health, interior ministries coordinate over 'oncall doctors'

The Ministry of Health, represented by Assistant Undersecretary for Legal Affairs, Salman Al-Haifi, has coordinated with the Interior Ministry, represented by the Investigations department concerning organization of the mechanism of doctors call in order to ensure that the doctors carry out their humanitarian and professional duties uninterrupted.
Al-Haifi said in a press statement that the legal department of the ministry has contacted the director general of the investigations department to study a proposal to have the 'oncall doctor' be called in when necessary by a competent officer of the investigations department and in coordination with the Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Health.
He added that the proposal would help in the arrangement of the 'oncall doctor' so as to have the investigation done at the headquarters of the General Administration of investigations and not in a police station.
He said that investigators at police stations often summon doctors to police stations to help in the investigations, a matter that interuupt the doctors' routine work at the hospitals.