A group of people working at Kuwait Ministry of Health's (MoH) foreign labor test center, were arrested because they tampered with blood test samples.
“Lab tests were carried on four Egyptian nationals following an urgent alert issued by the Ministry of Interior”, said Health Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Public health Dr. Majda Al-Qattan.
She said that two Egyptians were infected with Hepatitis-B and the two others were diagnosed two with Hepatitis-C, while the tuberculosis tests were negative.
Al-Qattan noted the ministry of interior has been monitoring employees at the foreign labor test center for four months who were tampering with tests' results
by tampering with blood samples when moving them between the room where blood samples were taken and the laboratory.
A security guard and an MoH inspector were implicated, she said.
Al-Qattan said this gang was led by an Egyptian woman who was forging stamps used to clear tests.
"This woman put the clear-to-go stamp on polluted samples," she said.
Al-Qattan said they identified a number of expatriates who passed the medical test through this gang.
Al-Qattan said the MoH would also coordinate with the Foreign Ministry to prevent such forgery.