Article 58 of Law on the Practice of Medicine and Allied Health Professions

The Ministry shall classify all types and deaths of private health facilities and determine the required procedures, the requirements to be met by the licence applicant, and the controls regulating the work of each of them so that they achieve their purposes in accordance with the requirements of the public interest. For the granting of a licence to open a private clinic or dispensary, it is required that the physician be Kuwaiti or more licensed to practise the profession. Licensing a physician to open more than one dispensary or one clinic is prohibited, as is licensing the opening of a branch of that clinic or dispensary. For the granting of a licence to open a hospital or health centre, it is required that the licence for practising a profession be a licensed Kuwaiti or a legal person, and, in the case of a legal personality, that its owner or one of its partners must be a practitioner of a Kuwaiti profession licensed to him, provided that his speciality and professional level are commensurate with the type and nature of the work and activity of the facility, and in accordance with the controls determined by the Ministry. A branch may be opened for each hospital or health centre at the rate of one branch per governorate, provided that at least one Kuwaiti practitioner of a profession works at the branch of each facility on a full-time or part-time basis. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to health facilities owned by governmental entities or companies in which the State holds a share or which conduct their activity pursuant to Law No. (116) of 2013 concerning the Promotion of Direct Investment. It is prohibited for Index of the Law 771 Home Page Law on the Practice of Medicine and Allied Professions Law No. 70 of 2020 concerning the Practice of Medicine and Its Allied Professions, Patients’ Rights and Health Facilities a licensed practitioner of the profession to use his licence to obtain a licence for more than one hospital or to combine licences for more than one health centre of the same type.