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Dialysis center opens in Farwaniya Hospital |
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Monday, 12 April 2010 23:27 |
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KUWAIT: Farwaniya Hospital would be expanded before the end of this year with 1,280 beds, said Minister of Health Dr Hilal Al-Sayer yesterday.
Speaking at the opening of the dialysis center in Farwaniya Hospital, the minister revealed that the accommodation capacity of the new center would be increased.
It includes about 55 kidney dialysis units and 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.
Meanwhile, Undersecretary for the Health Ministry Dr. Ibrahim Abdulhadi revealed that the Ministry is planning to open new dialysis centers in every governorate to make this type of treatment available to all patients, revealing that a dialysis center would be opened in Jahra governorate soon. - Kuwait Times
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