{"id":86175,"date":"2023-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-moh-stresses-need-of-investing-in-healthcare-services\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:00:00","slug":"kuwait-moh-stresses-need-of-investing-in-healthcare-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-moh-stresses-need-of-investing-in-healthcare-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait MoH stresses need of investing in healthcare services"},"content":{"rendered":"
Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for External Health Services Affairs, Dr. Yaqoub Al-Tamar Thursday underlined the necessity of preventing people from being infected with hearing problems and curing them by investing in healthcare services.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a festival held at Sheikh Salem Al Ali Al Sabah Center for Speech and Hearing Therapy under the patronage of Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi on World Hearing Day, Al-Tamar said the festival aims at enhancing awareness and knowledge on hearing problems, and opportunity of prevention and therapy.<\/p>\n
Hearing diseases are common as 460 million people all over the world are suffering from them, and this requires shedding light on means of prevention, he said.<\/p>\n
He referred to a World Health Organization (WHO) report that the number of those who are dealing with hearing loss reached 2.5 billion.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, head of hearing and speech department at the center Dr. Mariam Al-Kandari said the facility receives 1,500 patients monthly, in addition to other centers in Al-Ahmadi, Jahra and Jaber Hospital. She indicated that hearing loss affects negatively all people and makes them feel severely depressed, adding that this also results in some other diseases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for External Health Services Affairs, Dr. Yaqoub Al-Tamar Thursday underlined the necessity of preventing people from being infected with hearing problems and curing them by investing in healthcare services. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a festival held at Sheikh Salem Al Ali Al Sabah Center for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n