Healthcare in Kuwait

Kuwait has a state-funded healthcare system, which provides treatment without charge to holders of a Kuwaiti passport. A public insurance scheme exists to provide reduced cost healthcare to non-citizens. Private healthcare providers also run medical facilities in the country, available to members of their insurance schemes.[1]

The government maintains the Kuwaiti Health Office in London to deal with the funding of treatment for Kuwaiti citizens in the UK. £13 million was embezzled from it between 2009 and 2016 by four accountants who worked there in collaboration with 20 doctors working in British hospitals.[2]

References
  1. "HEALTH SERVICES". Embassy of Kuwait in Canada. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
  2. "Four arrested as millions stolen from Kuwait office – Joint efforts bust gang in UK". Arab Times. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2017.


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