Kuwaiti health minister announces intention to resign after accusations of corruption
Kuwait, Politics, 4/5/2005

The Kuwaiti minister of health Muhammad al-Jar Allah announced he will submit his resignation after strong pressures he was exposed to at the hands of Islamic parliamentarians over what has become known as "the scandal of hospitals".

Al-Jarallah told the Kuwaiti news agency, that he will leave it for the prime minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah the matter of accepting or refusing his resignation, following a heated session in the parliament that lasted for 11 hours.

Ten Islamist parliamentarians asked for casting no confidence in al-Jarallah, and accused him of being responsible for the overwhelming corruption in the state run health establishments, including a rape case of a pregnant woman and another rape case of a Kuwaiti female doctor two weeks earlier, as well as accusations of worsening health services.

Fahd al-Khanaa', the spokesman for the bloc of the Islamists which includes 13 parliamentarians, called on the minister of health to resign because he failed to give appropriate answers, while another parliamentarian accused him of wasting millions of dollars of public funds.

Al-Jarallah still has two weeks to resign prior to the meeting of the Umma council ( parliament), which is composed of 50 members, to vote for accepting keeping him or not.

Al-Jarallah's announcement came just three months after the resignation of the minister of information Muhammad Abu al-Hassan who was accused by the Islamists of permitting programs which are insensitive to social moral standards in Kuwait.

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