Major-General Youssef Al-Saudi told MPs during a debate about the security situation in the country that 9,307 of those deported were women and 8,517 were men.
He did not provide explanation for the violations the deported expatriates had committed.
The special debate was called to study the measures made by the interior ministry to beef-up security measures in the country following an earlier debate on the issue in January this year.
Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al- Humoud Al-Sabah said that the ministry has taken all the necessary measures to implement recommendations made by lawmakers in January, including increasing the number of policemen and security men.
Several MPs praised the minister for the measures he had taken while others criticized the ministry saying that lawlessness was still widespread and that the ministry has failed to improve deteriorating security situations amid warnings that Kuwait might be impacted by the fallouts of events in Arab countries.
Sheikh Ahmad told the assembly that he and senior officials will continue to improve the security in Kuwait. In another debate yesterday on the health situation in Kuwait, a number of MPs called for allocating the morning sessions at health facilities for Kuwaitis and evening sessions for expats.
The ministry had earlier announced that it planned to apply such a policy in certain public health facilities in order to organize the operations of hospitals and clinics.
But recommendations submitted by MPs at the end of the debate did not call for separation between Kuwaiti and expatriate patients.
MPs strongly blasted Health Minister Mohammad Al-Haifi for low standard public health services and for the ministry’s policy of sending Kuwaiti patients for treatment abroad.
The minister told the assembly that the ministry plans to build nine new hospitals over the coming four years and expand existing hospitals so as to almost double the number of beds to over 12,000 beds, adding that the number will further increase to over 15,000 beds in 2030.
He said that the ministry’s budget this fiscal year (2013-14) is KD 1.5 billion and this will help the ministry speed up the implementation of its plans.
Haifi said that between 2002 and 2010, Kuwait registered as many as 7,200 cases of cancer, a fifth of which were breast cancer, adding that under the ministry’s plan, the cancer center will be expanded four-folds over the coming four years.
