KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti surgeon conducted a rare gastric sleeve surgery using surgical speculum to a patient weighing about 300 kilograms.

Consultant of General surgery and surgical speculum consultant at Amiri Hospital Dr. Walid Khaled Al-Bastaki told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the gastric sleeve surgery he conducted on the 39-year-old patient was very rare because of the weight of

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received cables with Eid greetings from His Highness the Crown prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, National Assembly Speaker Jassim Mohammad Al-Kharafi, National Guards Chief Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and First Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah.

The dignitaries expressed loyal...

KUWAIT: Environmental official at the Environment Public Authority (EPA) Saoud Al-Rasheed has stressed the importance of setting up a fourth refinery to provide power and water desalination stations with clean fuel. He said that setting up the refinery will have a positive effect on the environment in Kuwait and its residential areas, in addition to improving quality of air and public health.

Moreover, he said that EPA and the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) have requested to start a proj...