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JUMADA ALTHANI 8, 1441 AH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2020 28 Pages Max 19º Min 07º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18050 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Nuclear medicine unit at Adan Hospital: China’s isolation grows US diabetics turn to black market Kenin in dreamland after 2 Progressive success in patient service 6 as virus toll reaches 259 16 or Canada for life-saving insulin 28 stunning Aussie Open win Abbas says Palestinians cutting all relations with Israel and US Arab League rejects Trump plan • Kuwait: Palestinian cause remains perennial concern CAIRO: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced Abbas also said yesterday he had refused to discuss yesterday a cut of all ties with Israel and the United the plan with Trump by phone, or to receive even a copy States, including security cooperation, after of it to study it. “Trump asked that I speak to him by Washington unveiled a controversial Middle East plan phone but I said ‘no’, and that he wants to send me a let- seen as favoring Israel. His comments came as the Arab ter ... but I refused it.” Abbas said he did not want Trump League rejected US President Donald Trump’s plan, to be able to say that he, Abbas, had been consulted. He which infuriated the Palestinians. reiterated his “complete” rejection of the Trump plan. “We are informing you that there will be no relations In July 2017, Abbas announced the suspension of with you (Israel) and the United States, including on security coordination with Israel during a major dispute security cooperation,” Abbas said at an extraordinary over the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in meeting of the pan-Arab bloc in Cairo. The Palestinian Jerusalem. It was resumed later that year though the leader said the move followed the “disavowal of signed chief of the Palestinian police said that even during the agreements and international legitimacy” by the US and suspension they had maintained regular contact, with Israel. Israel will have to “bear responsibility as an 95 percent of the activities continuing. “The only thing occupying power” for the Palestinian territories and we stopped is we didn’t meet them in the field,” Hazem Palestinians will press ahead with resistance using Atallah said at the time. peaceful means, he said. Continued on Page 24 CAIRO: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds a placard showing maps of (from left) historical Palestine, the 1947 United Nations partition plan of Palestine, the 1948-1967 borders between the Palestinian territories and Israel, and a current map of the Palestinian territories without Israeli-annexed areas and settlements, as he attends an Arab League emergency meeting at the league headquarters yesterday. — AFP are sent to Kuwait and DNA tests are conducted. Kuwait can’t confirm The General Department of Criminal Evidence of the Kuwaiti ministry of interior is the sole body responsible for conducting DNA tests on the exhumed bodies and remains found in Iraq comparing the results with the genetic profiles of fami- lies of Kuwaiti POWs and missing persons, he belong to Kuwaitis explained. The International Committee of the Red Cross-spearheaded Tripartite Commission, which was KUWAIT: Kuwait can’t confirm immediately that the formed to ascertain the fate of persons who went miss- recently exhumed human remains in Iraq belong to ing during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990 and Kuwaiti prisoners of war (POWs) or missing persons, a 1991, issued a statement on Jan 30 about the discovery senior foreign ministry official said. In a press statement of this burial site. There are specific work rules and a yesterday, Assistant Foreign Minister for International protocol, signed by members of the Tripartite Organizations Nasser Al-Hain stated that it is not pos- Commission, for searching for graves and handling the sible to identify these human remains - photos of which recovered remains, Hain stated. were circulated on social media outlets - unless they Continued on Page 24 taxation proposals seek to bring the vast Indian dias- New tax rules pora under the ambit of an expanding tax net. According to the new budget proposals, a non- resident Indian (NRI) who is not taxed in a foreign in India budget country will become taxable in India. Currently, NRIs are not taxed in India, but the new income tax rules unnerve expats will have serious implications for many NRIs working and living in the Gulf region, which is considered as a By Sajeev K Peter tax haven for both citizens and residents. According to the new budget proposals, an Indian KUWAIT: New taxation proposals in the 2020 citizen who is not liable to pay tax in any other coun- Indian budget, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala try or territory shall be deemed to be a resident in Sitharaman, yesterday sent jitters across the Indian India and their worldwide income will be taxed. expat community in Kuwait, as the government’s new Continued on Page 24 Little has changed yet as the UK is now in an 11- After Brexit, UK month transition period negotiated as part of the divorce. Britons will be able to work in the EU and trade freely - and vice versa - until Dec 31, although the embarks on its UK will no longer be represented in the bloc’s institu- tions. But legally, Britain is out. future outside EU Thousands of people waving Union Jack flags packed London’s Parliament Square and sang the LONDON: Britain began an uncertain future outside national anthem to mark that reality as Brexit became the European Union yesterday after the country greet- law at 11 pm (2300 GMT) - midnight in Brussels. Prime ed the historic end to almost half a century of EU mem- Minister Boris Johnson - whose decisive December bership with a mixture of joy and sadness. There were election victory finally paved the way for Britain’s long- celebrations and tears on Friday night as the EU’s often stalled departure - held a private party in his Downing reluctant member became the first to leave an organi- Street office, with a clock projected on the walls out- zation set up to forge unity among nations after the side counting down the minutes to Brexit. horrors of World War II. Continued on Page 24 2 Local Sunday, February 2, 2020 Nuclear Medicine Unit at Adan Hospital, progressive success in patients’ service 3D PET/CT volume rendering of a patient scanned with PET/CT Fused image of a patient scanned in NM ADAN 3D Printing Technology of a human prostate with cancer ISO 9001-2015 UKAS certificate obtained by NM – ADAN F18-FDG Hospital Foci – NM - ADAN KUWAIT: Nuclear and Molecular (NM) Imaging and Health (MOH) in 2015. The unit is now accommodat- facilitated on-line patient booking with a maximum of NM Unit is progressing actively in research and related science are a key component of Kuwait’s port- ing five state of the art SPECT and SPECT/CT cam- 48 hour waiting list for all NM tests and maximum of development including coronary artery disease, lung folio since the 1970s, providing fundamental insights eras, a PET/CT suit, a well-equipped radiopharmacy, 14 days for PET scan currently. In addition, it has cancer and biomarker, pediatric hyperinsulinism, CT into the nation’s health, well-being and therefore eco- thyroid clinic and the associated uptake facilities and paved the way for the NM Unit to work towards a dose audit, Y90 PET/CT synovectomy, and 3D nomic vitality. As such, our vision is to raise the par of C14 test facilities. The number of NM patient tests paperless unit in line with Kuwait’s strategy moving Printing for medical application and in association NM and molecular imaging services in Kuwait to performed over the past five years has increased. In towards digitization of health service. with other specialties nationally and internationally. It match the international standards, and for them to be 2019, the hospital performed a total of 5248 NM NM Adan has been involved dynamically in promot- has also been successful in receiving a number of a nationally recognized center of excellence with the tests, including over 1,920 cardiac imaging, 1,417 C-14 ing the specialty by organizing the state level confer- research grants from Kuwait Foundation of aim to improve Kuwaiti patients’ health, bearing in tests, 415 PET scans and 465 thyroid scans and ences and workshops, including the recent events: CT Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and has published mind that the Adan Hospital provides health services radioiodine treatment. workshop, Thyroid workshop, NM week. It also organ- the outcome of the research in a number of well- for more than 1,300,000 inhabitants. NM Adan is the only NM Unit in MOH that has ized a number of in-house teaching and training for respected international journals including Journal of NM Unit in Adan Hospital has gone through managed to achieve prestigious UKAS double ISO physicians (KIMS), technologists and scientific staff in Medicine (USA), journal of Internal of Medicine noticeable changes and modernization since its han- 2008 and 2015 for three consecutive years. This has collaboration with the manufacture providers through (USA), International Journal of Recent Scientific dover from the private management to the Ministry of had great impact on overall NM service management, local agents, which resulted a well-trained staff. Research (USA) and many more. local spotlight Kuwait cautions against travel Coronavirus to China KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday warned its nationals against travelling to China due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus By Muna Al-Fuzai (2019-nCoV) there. “Given the spread of the 2019- nCoV and out of care for the safety of Kuwaiti citi- zens, we advise them to cancel their plans for travel to China and urge the Kuwaitis who are still there to [email protected] come back as early as possible,” the Ministry said a statement this evening.

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