About 78% of Kuwaiti women chose to give birth in private hospitals during 2020, an indication that female citizens prefer private medical facilities to government hospitals.
Al-Qabas has learned a report issued by the Central Administration of Statistics on births in 2020 show 24,450 Kuwaiti women gave birth in private hospitals, compared to 6,942 births in government hospitals.
To the contrary, a vast majority of non-Kuwaiti women preferred to give birth in government hospitals. The statistics show 16,889 non-Kuwaiti women gave birth in government hospital compared to 3,807 in private hospitals.
