KUWAIT: Kuwait has begun to oblige new couples to undergo pre-marriage medical check-up. The Ministry of Health opened a new center for pre-marriage medical check-up, receiving 45 couples on the first day of opening.The ministry plans to open new offices of the center in all other governorates in the country in order to facilitate the application of the new system, Minister of Health Hilal al-Sayer told reporters following the inauguration of the medical facility.The Kuwaiti move is chiefly intended to ensure healthy and safe marriages with a view to curbing genetic and contagious diseases, he said. Diseases involved in pre-marital medical examination include anemia, hepatitis, AIDS and syphilis, he added.August 3, 2009
Kuwait opens new center for pre-marriage medical check-up
KUWAIT: Kuwait has begun to oblige new couples to undergo pre-marriage medical check-up. The Ministry of Health opened a new center for pre-marriage medical check-up, receiving 45 couples on the first day of opening.The ministry plans to open new offices of the center in all other governorates in the country in order to facilitate the application of the new system, Minister of Health Hilal al-Sayer told reporters following the inauguration of the medical facility.The Kuwaiti move is chiefly intended to ensure healthy and safe marriages with a view to curbing genetic and contagious diseases, he said. Diseases involved in pre-marital medical examination include anemia, hepatitis, AIDS and syphilis, he added.
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