05 | June | 2012 | eXpatVoices

The Suffering Horse In An Enclosure

Urgent Need For Regulations On Animal Husbandry

KUWAIT CITY, June 4: Last weekend in Kabd, farm areas:

Volunteers found a horse in a terrible condition in front of a farm on a paddock. When we arrived the horse was lying lifeless in the middle of the sun, that time we had about 46 Degrees Celsius. We tried to inform the people inside of the farm but nobody answered. Without hesitation we went inside and tried to motivate the horse to move into the shaded area at the corner of the paddock. When the horse got up we realized his terrible constitution …he was sighing under great pain and was not able to stand on his front legs, he tried to jump on his shivering back legs into the direction we asked him to…after an hour for us endless time the horse made the 4 m distance and fell down in the shade with a scream of pain and desperation. We fixed provisionally fences around him that he couldn’t roll back into the sun, then we immediately pored cool water over his whole body and had a closer look on his front leg hoofs…the picture was indescribable… Continue reading →

The mortuary at the Al Sabah hospital in Kuwait City.
Photo: Jeroen Kramer via http://www.smh.com.au/

Bodies of expatriates, who died in Kuwait, have been piling up in the morgue of Al-Sabah Health District due to the failure of the Ministry of Health, its interior counterpart and the concerned embassies to lay down a mechanism for the repatriation of these corpses, reports Al-Kuwaitiah daily quoting sources.

Sources said the Ministry of Health has been facing difficulties as the number of expatriates’ corpses continues to increase, while the health districts and hospitals have yet to find appropriate solutions to repatriate these bodies, especially since some of them have been kept in the morgue for several years.

Sources alleged the Legal Department at the ministry has not taken any step to address the problem despite the high number of complaints referred to the concerned authorities.

Sources confirmed Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obeidi had earlier discussed the issue with Al-Sabah Hospital Director Dr Abbas Ramadan and he promised to work with the relevant agencies to solve the problem.

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