a government hospital license requires the following steps: the approval of the concerned minister, the allocation of the land, approval from the kuwait municipality, a study on the project, a blue print of the project, monetary estimation and a request to be submitted to the concerned financial authorities to allocate the money.
this is in addition to the approval of the finance committee of the national assembly and the council of ministers which includes approval for the money allocated to build the hospital.
the project is then floated by means of the tender following which the offers are studied and the tender is then awarded to the lowest bidder and after receiving the necessary guarantees, the construction begins, then completion of the project and so on.
in general, these are the main steps to be taken to build any hospital, and this usually takes between three and five years.
china built a 1,000-bed hospital for people infected with the coronavirus in record time – not more than a week. a witty person summarized this miracle with the following lines:
i am surprised when they formed a committee, studied the project, laid the foundation stone, and announced the tender in the newspaper ‘china today’?
when did the tender committee agree to the offers, and how did they reach the ministry of finance and the people’s assembly and how they received the money allocated for the project?
and when were the concerned committees formed, and when did the project engineers receive payments to be made to the contractors? how did they open the hospital without the presence of senior officials and the concerned ministry officials unlike ‘others’ who are always in the forefront posing in front of the television cameras with a broad smile on their faces?
historically, communist china has refused to make extensive use of machinery in its projects, desiring to employ the largest number of manpower on its mega projects. with its industrial and economic advancement, the need for large-scale construction equipment has emerged, and the project implementation has been progressing at a much higher rate.
in kuwait, the opposite happens because of a “sacred civil text” that obliges the government to provide jobs for every kuwaiti!
the interest of the government administration has shifted from the use of the latest modern systems to perform the work, which means less dependence on the labor force, especially the unskilled, so the attention has shifted to finding any job to the army of employees where people have little or no experience with many of the unproductive, especially those who have a ‘waste’.
many sectors took the task of breaking up jobs and distributing their tasks to the largest number of employees, so everyone has a job. this resulted in an unjustified lengthening of the documentary cycle.
from all of this, it has become imperative that we find a way to stop this frightening waste of resources and stop the ‘daily’ inflation of the payroll item.
what happens is a heinous crime committed against the homeland and against the future of the next generations. the financial crisis is coming, despite all that the so-called ‘optimists’, the gullible and the stupid people continue to say ‘we are financially sound’ and ‘we have huge financial reserves’ to offset future deficits if any.
and as long as there are strong demands not to harm the citizen’s pocket, it is necessary to stop employment in the government sector, urge citizens to work in the private sector or undertake beneficial and extremely important craft activities.
also, the other option available to the government is to stop waste and unjustified spending and to gradually reduce the value of the dinar, thereby reducing pressure on resources and recovering the state budget.