Pakistan signs agreement to send 600 medical workers to Kuwait

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Pakistan has signed an agreement to send 600 medical workers to Kuwait on its request, ArabNews reported.

"100 doctors, 500 nurses and paramedics as of now," Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfiqar Bukhari was quoted as saying by ArabNews. It added that Pakistan had agreed in May to send hundreds of medical workers to Kuwait amid rising coronavirus cases and deaths in the country.

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