29. The preventive services provided to the mother and child are considered among the primary
healthcare services, such as the prenatal services, regular examination of children, immunization and
postnatal or abortion services, family planning services, the regular check-up of women, prenuptial
check-up services, and ultrasound examination for pregnant women. Moreover, the preventive
services include dental health, dental medical services for the mother and child, diabetics, the
elderly, and the physical disabled.
30. Moreover, this care includes the secondary and clinical healthcare, and this care is offered through
diverse medical services for the sick and those residing in the various public hospitals at the forefront
of which is Salmaniya Medical Complex which offers diverse medical services for the patients
staying in the various wards of the hospital according to the type of illness and the health condition
of the patient, and the hospital also includes a special section for accidents and emergencies, which
in turn offers urgent medical care to all the sick and injured. Moreover, the public and private
hospitals offer clinical care where the hospitals include wards classified according to the field of
specialization, and moreover, the beds are classified based on the gender and age of the patient, his
health condition, and the type of illness from which he/she suffers.
31. As to the other type of care it is the three care levels healthcare, where this service is offered through
the tripartite healthcare committee at the Ministry of Health to treat the ill abroad, and usually it
is the critical cases that are sent abroad where the treatment is not available in the Kingdom, and
the majority of cases sent abroad are: cancer, orthopaedic cases, Neurological diseases, internal
and surgical cases, and heart diseases. In this connection the office of treatment abroad arranges
schedules for the patients each according to his case.
32. In addition to the legislative protection for the right to health and the provision of health services of
various kinds to the citizens and residents of the country, the Kingdom of Bahrain has implemented
a constellation of political and economic initiatives to improve the quality of life of all the nationals
ad residents, such through building the capacity of the health sector in the Kingdom whereby
all can avail of easy and rapid access to high-quality health services, and most prominently the
National Health Information System (I-SEHA) where this system is considered one of the foremost
foundations for developing health services, such through implementing the finest and most modern
information technologies in the health field with a view to improving medical services offered to
the sick and to enhance their quality and efficiency based on the finest methods and techniques that
are globally available.
33. The concept of this system is grounded in providing the health (clinical) systems and what they need
in terms of an advanced information technology infrastructure, and also providing the connection
systems to the systems related to financial resources, warehouses, human resources, in addition to
coordinating with the projects of various governmental quarters to achieve integration and avoid
dualistic effort and cost between those projects. Moreover, this system aims to provide the executive
managers at the Ministry of Health with a reliable source of information which may be utilized to
develop the strategies and previously laid down plans to improve the healthcare system.
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