Hawalli Governor Ali Al-Asfar signed Wednesday a form that registers the governorate as an integrated healthy city and meets demands of healthy cities in all areas in the next period, as part of efforts to register healthy cities in Kuwait.

In a statement, Al-Asfar, who is also acting governor of Al Asimah Governorate, said Hawalli City suffered pressure on infrastructure due to overpopulation that negatively affected environment surrounding its citizens.

He stressed the need of efforts of all to implement all requirements to turn Hawalli Governorate into a healthy city in the future.

Meanwhile, head of healthy cities’ office at the Ministry of Health Dr. Amal Al-Yahya said it is an important step in the country to turn Hawalli into a healthy city.

She indicated that that Hawalli is the first city that sought to be designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as an accredited healthy city.

Al-Asfar submitted a request last August to the ministry on Hawalli joining the list of healthy cities.

Source: Kuwait News Agency