KUWAIT CITY, Feb 27: Director of the Special Contracts Department at the Ministry of Health Maryam Al-Shehab announced coordination with the Ministry of Interior for establishing an electronic link between the two ministries for the issuance of “Good Conduct” certificate for the new recruits from the medical, technical and nursing cadres who were contracted externally, reports Al-Anba daily.

In a press statement, she explained that the link aims to develop work, speed up completion, save time and effort, cancel the paper system, and adopt an “electronic fingerprint” system to facilitate procedures for new contractors.

A website has been created for the implementation of the "electronic fingerprint" mechanism for new appointees, in coordination with the Director of the General Department of Criminal Evidences Colonel Saadoun Al-Barghash.

Al-Shehab praised the efforts of the General Department of Criminal Evidences to overcome all obstacles in this regard.

She indicated that the previous system used to take time and effort, as it required giving the contracting person an official letter issued by the Ministry of Health to the General Department of Criminal Evidences to take the person’s fingerprint and then provide the ministry with his criminal record, which should be clean so that he can complete the contracting procedures and be granted residency. This used to take a lot of time and effort and required the parties concerned to coordinate with the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Interior several times in order to complete the procedures.

Al-Shehab affirmed that the new step comes within the framework of the Ministry of Health's direction to activate e-government and coordinate between state ministries and all competent authorities electronically.

Regarding the local contract, Al-Shehab stressed that applying for a "Good Conduct" certificate can be done through the “Sahel” app without the need for any letters from the Ministry of Health.