Non-Bahraini Patients Made 91,503 Hospital Visits in 2025

TDT | Manama

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Government hospitals in Bahrain recorded 91,503 visits by non-Bahraini patients to clinics and emergency departments in 2025, with 16,143 admitted for inpatient care, according to a Ministry of Health reply to MP Mahmood Fardan. The ministry said those patients stayed an average of four days and brought in BD902,353 in revenue, with the 2025 hospital figures counted up to October.  

The reply shows the hospital totals were 93,368 clinic and emergency visits in 2024 and 91,363 in 2023. The number of non-Bahraini inpatients stood at 15,372 in 2024 and 15,590 in 2023. Their average bed use was five days in both years. Revenue from hospital fees reached BD1,371,220 in 2024 and BD1,245,214 in 2023.  

At primary healthcare centres, the ministry said 18,039 non-Bahraini patients were seen in 2025 under Resolution No. 2 of 2017 on health service fees for non-Bahrainis. Revenue from those visits came to BD126,276, with the 2025 primary care figures counted up to December. The same reply put the number at 21,222 in 2024 and 27,767 in 2023, with revenue of BD148,554 and BD194,371 respectively.  

The ministry also listed exemptions from examination fees and other health service charges under Articles 1 and 3 of the 2017 resolution. It said exemptions in government hospitals stood at 16,795 in 2025, 13,509 in 2024 and 15,647 in 2023. At primary healthcare centres, the figures were 72,572 in 2025, 69,609 in 2024 and 70,633 in 2023. The reply said the health centre totals show the number of exempt patients who received care in each year and do not mean all were new cases.  

It said the grounds for exemption stem from legal rules or humanitarian cases. Those named in the reply include foreign wives of Bahraini men and foreign husbands of Bahraini women, subject to actual residence in Bahrain; widows and divorcees of Bahraini husbands, and widowers and divorcees of Bahraini wives, again subject to residence; children of Bahraini women married to non-Bahrainis; citizens of Gulf Co-operation Council states; emergency cases under the approved classification; inmates of reformation and rehabilitation centres; patients living in Bahrain who do not hold the nationality of a newborn; Bahraini newborns aged between one and two months whose passports have not yet been issued; and government employees covered by the Civil Service Law, along with their family members, provided they are permanent residents.

On the fees themselves, the ministry said the approved prices for services covered by Article 3 of Resolution No. 2 of 2017 were issued under Resolution No. 26 of 2019 and posted on its website. It added that the price list is being updated in line with the roll-out of the health insurance system.