IN KUWAIT, 93 PERSONS FOUND TO HAVE HEPATITIS, SYPHILLS AND HIV

  • 21/06/2022

Kuwait City: According to Dr. Hassan Al-Awadhi, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Health's Social Health Department, the pre-marital medical centres handled about 9,186 people (8,226 Kuwaitis and 960 non-Kuwaitis) between January 1, 2022 and April 30, 2022. Dr. Al-Awadhi revealed in an interview that around 93 people who asked for medical examinations before getting married during this time period were found to be infected with infectious diseases. Among the infectious illness cases detected within the aforementioned time period were 26 with hepatitis B, 7 with hepatitis C, 57 with syphilis, and 3 with HIV. Some of them did not complete the certification requirements. 


Approximately 84 percent of people served by the centres throughout the aforementioned time period have a university degree or higher. Seventy-four percent of them, or 6,858, have never been married. Roughly 21.6 percent, or 1,981, are divorced, while about 1098, or 11.9 percent, have a familial relationship. There are now five centres. 

They are affiliated with the Department of Social Health, such as the Al-Sabah Health Zone's main centre, which serves residents of the Capital and Hawally Governorates, the Jahra Center, which serves residents of Jahra Governorate, the Khaitan Center, which serves residents of Farwaniya Governorate, and the Hatteen Center, which serves residents of Hawally and the Capital Governorates, as well as the Mubarak Al- Kabeer Center, which serves residents of the Capital Governorate.

The centres awarded 4,443 certificates of completion of premarital exams, 51 of which were deemed "unsafe," while 43 certificates were not issued after both parties had completed a medical test due to one of them wishing to cancel.

 There are 16 certificates indicating the presence of hepatitis B, one certificate indicating the presence of hepatitis C, and 15 certificates indicating the presence of syphilis among the hazardous test certificates. During the four months, 862 cases of hereditary blood diseases were detected, including 148 cases of Sickle cell disease, 196 cases of thalassemia, and 518 cases of other blood diseases.

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