How, for God's sake?
Badrya Darwish
I just read one of the most amazing news items. Actually, the news were quite thrilling. A department head at the Ministry of Health gave a statement to the media that Kuwait is studying a plan to screen with clinical tests the labourers coming to work in Kuwait. Those who fail the clinical tests will not be allowed to get a work permit and reside in Kuwait. So far so good.
For years on end, Kuwait has been implementing a policy of medical examination that checks laborers' health status. A certified laboratory or a clinic that is approved by the Kuwait embassy in the country of origin of an applicant, conducts the medical tests in order to decrease any cheating related to the blood results etc.
Mind you, upon arrival in Kuwait the same tests are conducted at a Kuwaiti hospital in Al- Sabah area. This is something I approve of because it is not advisable to give permanent residency to anyone who has a serious disease. However, this is not the major point of discussion today. The gentleman from the ministry said that the screening will be applied to prevent gays, or what is known in the Gulf region as (methaleen) or (the third sex) from entering Kuwait.
At this point of the article, I laughed my head off. To check somebody for tuberculosis you X-ray his or her chest. To check for HIV they do blood work. All hepatitis diseases could be identified with blood work. If there is a medical check-up for 'gay-disease' may I know how the person who suggests such screening intends to do it? What kind of blood test or screening will be done?
I was flabbergasted hearing about the suggestion. Unless, of course, the gentleman has some other kinds of tests which we are unfamiliar with. If he is checking for gay men he should be checking for the rest of the crew: lesbians too.
Can he enlighten us how on Earth he plans to find out if someone is gay or not. Are the authorities going to include "sexual orientation" as one of the questions in a CV? I bet you, give this suggestion two days and Human Rights Watch will be barraging us with claims of human rights violations. They might also start asking the Western world to ban Kuwaitis from entering. Have a good evening!
By Badrya Darwish
badrya_d@kuwaittimes.net
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