Indian housewife arrested in Kuwait for running illegal clinic

An Indian woman was recently arrested for practicing medicine without a license at an unauthorised clinic in the suburb of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh in Kuwait.Taking to X, the Kuwait’s Ministry of Interior (MoI) disclosed that this arrest is part of its ongoing efforts to combat negative phenomena and to preserve the health and safety of society.

The arrest was carried out by detectives from the Farwaniya Police Command’s Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh Investigations Section in the



Criminal Security Sector.At the time of the arrest, the woman was reportedly attending to a child. Although officially registered as a “housewife,” she was discovered running a clinic equipped with various medicines, a blood pressure monitor, a stethoscope, and infant formula provided by the Ministry of Health.

Authorities found that she had been preparing and distributing “folk remedies” in capsule form without proper medical supervision or government authorization.