"Chest Diseases Hospital (CDH) is the first and largest tertiary cardiac centre in the state of Kuwait. The hospital operations came into patient service since the year 1959. CDH has mainly four departments that includes Adult Cardiology, Adult Cardiothoracic surgery, Paediatric Cardiology and Paediatric Cardiothoracic surgery. Along with Kuwait, it has become a leading facility in whole of GCC. The hospital has capacity of over 230 beds, equipped with 4 operating rooms for adults and 1 operating room for paediatric patients, 7 catheterization laboratories, 2 intensive care units and 1 cardiac care unit."