The Ministry of Health said that, based on ethics, laws, regulations, and ministerial decisions that regulate the practice of the medical profession, various human aspects, good treatment of patients, and the provision of required health care to patients without discrimination have been taken into account.
The ministry told a local Arabic daily, it exempts non-Kuwaiti patients with acute heart attacks and the resulting cases of High Risk NSTEMI and STEMI from cardiac catheterization fees, which are performed on an emergency basis and that the blood-thinning drug Clopidogrel 75 mg is dispensed to non-Kuwaiti patients who are undergoing open-heart surgeries, or interventional catheterization of the heart, for a period of 6 months from the date of the operation, in accordance with ministerial decisions.
The sources indicated that the ministry provides urgent treatment for emergency cases that need rapid medical intervention, including emergency surgeries to preserve the health and life of the patient, as well as exempting non-Kuwaiti children with cancer who have valid residency from all fees for diagnostic and treatment services and medicines provided by the Ministry.
“There are also about 20 other categories of humanitarian cases of non-Kuwaitis, which are applicable within the categories of exemption from health services fees, according to the decisions regulating that, which take into account the humanitarian aspects,” said the daily quoting health ministry sources.
It affirmed the provision of all means of care for patients in accordance with medical principles and developments, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, awareness and guidance, and reaffirmed the provision of the required care for each emergency case in need of medical intervention, without linking that to the collection of health fees determined by the decisions and regulations regulating that.
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