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One in five people will become mentally ill during their lifetime, according to World Health Organization statistics. The Ministry of Health is now working on a new awareness campaign to shed light on this issue and help people in Kuwait deal effectively with those suffering from mental health difficulties. “Mental health is just as important as physical and spiritual well-being,” said Lulu Al-Rodaini, leader of local NGO Human Line and a member of the steering committee charged with the awareness campaign.

Only eight percent of the Kuwaiti population uses public transport facilities in the country, local daily reported quoting Director for Transportation at Kuwait Public Transport Company Abdullah Saleh. The total population of Kuwait is around 3.7 million people. It’s noted that the average percentage of public transport usage in most countries is 30 percent.

Public authority for Manpower in coordination with Ministry of Interior will reconsider the mechanism of filing absconding cases against expats, local daily Arab Times reported citing Al-Qabas Arabic news paper.

According to reports, the current mechanism of filing absconding cases is unfair to expatriates as it enables the employers to blackmail and threatens the labors, because the residency of the laborer is cancelled after the employer files absconding case against him.

Ministry of Interior is currently studying the possibility of giving expatriates who have violated the residency law a chance to rectify their status and leave the country, local daily reported quoting informed sources.

According to source, the ministry has approved a comprehensive security plan to eliminate the phenomenon of marginal labourers and arrest wanted individuals, especially after discovering that many of them are involved in various crimes including murders, robberies and most recently the murder of a Pakistan guard in Jaber Al-Ahmad City.