Letter to the Ministries of Health, Public Works, and Interior

When a citizen enters the government clinic to visit the dental and ophthalmology clinics, he finds the dental clinic operating in two sessions, morning and evening, while the ophthalmology clinic closes its doors after 1:00 PM. Why? There are some citizens who prefer to visit in the afternoon, for example, either due to advanced age or other circumstances.

We ask: Are there officials in the Ministry of Public Works who care about filling potholes? Are there technical committees, each of which inspects the area’s needs for repairing potholes and similar issues? There are potholes that hit car tires with such force that the vehicle is damaged. Do the Public Works authorities know about them?

You are driving your car at night, and suddenly your car is jolted upward and hits a bump hard. Why didn’t the Public Works engineers think of placing illuminated metal pieces that become visible on asphalt bumps when exposed to car headlights at night? Or why didn’t they install a signpost indicating a speed bump ahead?

This causes traffic congestion, with cars lining up one behind another in a long, stationary queue. Make the cars move; never stop at traffic lights for more than a few seconds. The Traffic Department could conduct an experiment on one of Kuwait’s streets, which is usually congested, by making the traffic light open and close every few seconds, and then observe the results. If it proves effective, it can be applied to traffic lights across the country’s streets.

Child and adult accidents: One day, an infant suffocated, and his father rushed to take him to Mubarak Hospital by car. However, due to traffic congestion, the father took 50 minutes to travel from Rumaythiya to the opposite side where the hospital is located. The hospital gate was visible to him, while the infant was bleeding from his nose onto his father’s chest. When they reached the reception area, the father received the devastating shock of being informed by doctors that the newborn had passed away.

Then, suppose a citizen injures himself and is bleeding. In our current situation, he would rush to his car to go to the hospital. Near his home is a traffic light, and he would have to wait 15 minutes for it to turn green, putting his life at risk. If this happened to me, I might feel compelled to drive onto the sidewalk, carefully run the red light, watch for passing cars, while bleeding and afraid. Please, the Ministry of Interior should study this matter.

I read about a similar incident where a father carried his child in an ambulance, but this ambulance was lined up with other cars at a traffic light, waiting for it to turn green. Why didn’t the Ministry of Health use technology to open the traffic light for the ambulance?