This is the first hospital to provide medical services to coronavirus infected patients as prescribed by the Government of Bangladesh.

[2][3][4][5] Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Hospital is located on Isha Khan Avenue, Sector 6, Uttara, Dhaka.

[6][7] On 10 June 2001, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated Kuwait-Bangladesh Friendship Hospital.

In 2002, the Kuwaiti Joint Relief Committee stopped funding the hospital, showing financial crisis reason.

A lease agreement was made between The Ministry of Health and American Hospital Consortium on December 16, 2002.

Six years later, the court ruled in favor of the government and the custody of the hospital was given to the health ministry.