Free food supplies to all frontline workers

Kuwait will distribute Free food supplies to all frontline workers in Kuwait - including Kuwaitis, Gulf citizens, Bidoon, and expat employees of ministries of Health and Interior, Al Qabas newspaper reported.

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said free food supplies will be given out as KD50 million had been allocated to cover the costs.

The Ministry of Health will prepare a statement within two weeks listing the names of the deserving employees so they can benefit, according to reliable sources.

The sources said those employees who are covered by the free ration reward for 6 months, are believed to be about 91,000 beneficiaries (workers of all nationalities from the ministries of Health and Interior, and their eligible dependents in which case the total number of people for free ration will reach more than 400,000), bearing in mind that the total cost of the individual who meets the conditions for free ration stipend ranges between 90 and 100 dinars for the designated period.