KUWAIT, April 10 (KUNA) -- Ministry of Health announced on Saturday the opening of a new center for kidney dialysis in Farwaniya hospital tomorrow under the patronage of Minister of Health Dr. Hilal Al-Sayer.
Director of Farwaniya medical area Dr. Saud Al-Dar'aa told (KUNA) that the new center, which includes about 55 kidney dialysis units, is equipped with the latest technologies to improve performance and quality of service to patients.
With the opening of this center, the capacity of the kidney dialysis units in the country would increase to some 300 units or by 70 percent across the Mubarak Al-Kabeer, Amiri, Adan, Farwaniya hospitals and Al-Nafisi Center.
Al-Dar'aa stressed the important role of Farwaniya Hospital, which serves nearly one million people, saying that the absorptive capacity of the hospital increased after the Amiri expansion to 910 beds at a growth rate of nearly 90 percent. - Kuna