Private Hospitals Allowed To Conduct Minor Surgeries

  • 17/11/2020

Kuwait City : As per reports, the Ministry of Health has allowed private medical institutions to conduct one-day surgeries that require general anesthesia. Earlier, the Ministry laid down regulations for conducting surgeries that do not take more than two hours, do not require confinement in the intensive care unit and do not require blood transfusion. Also mentioned that the blood transfusion should not be done to patients who exceed 50years, body mass should not exceed 30 and the patient does not suffer from any chronic diseases which include diabetes, heart, blood, Kidney and immunodeficiency diseases. As per reports, the regulations announced includes : the patient should obtain a score not higher than two in the classification of the American Anesthesia Association, the patient must undergo swab test not more than 48 hours before the surgery, the swab test result should be negative, chest X-ray must be conducted, the patient does not exhibit any symptom of respiratory diseases and hemoglobin must be normal according to the gender.

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