contact with them, in addition to making a number of visits to workers' accommodation.7 4.12 Recommendations: (A) The speedy issuance of a law dealing with medical liability to be an integrated legislation that deals in particular with clarifying the rights and duties of patients, doctors and health service providers and the consequences of the violation. (B) That the competent authorities work to improve the monitoring performance of health services to ensure that medical errors are avoided. (C) Increase the number of health centers, maternity hospitals, and medical staff in the five governorates, to be commensurate with the number of patients attending them in each governorate, in line with the rapid population growth in the Kingdom of Bahrain. (D) That the competent authorities create a system for monitoring the drug stock and consumption rates in order to avoid cases of drug shortages or unavailability in various pharmacies. (E) Studying market requirements with regard to the health field so that the number of scholarships dedicated to studying medicine in the subspecialties that the health sector suffers from will be increased. (F) Allocate enough physicians charged with providing medical care to those whose freedom is restricted, with the need to train them to provide special physical and psychological protection for this category and treat diseases at the same level and quality that others obtain. 7 For more information on the visits of NIHR during the pandemic, refer to the Eighth Annual Report of the National Institution on Human Rights for the year 2020 on its website, under Annual Reports icon, http://www.nihr.org.bh Parallel Report of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)@2021 15

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