Ministries of Higher Education and Health Discuss Medical Specializations Needed by the Health Sector
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education met with his counterpart at the Ministry of Health to discuss the health sector's needs for medical specializations in order to develop an effective scholarship plan.
Translated by Qiyas from الجريدة — Original source
Deputy Minister of Higher Education Dr. Badr Al-Basiri held a coordination meeting with Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Salman Khalifa Al-Sabah at the Ministry of Higher Education’s headquarters recently, to discuss the needs of Kuwait’s health sector for medical and allied health specialties, in order to prepare a scholarship plan aligned with the actual and future workforce requirements of the health sector.
The meeting addressed the identification of priority specialties and the alignment of scholarship opportunities with the Ministry of Health’s needs for qualified national cadres, thereby enhancing the efficiency of formulating external scholarship policies and helping to fill the health sector’s demand for required specialties.
This meeting comes within the framework of strengthening coordination and integration between the two ministries, and linking higher education outputs with labor market needs, thereby supporting the development of specialized national competencies that contribute to improving the health system and enhancing the quality of its services.
