Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, may God protect him, and the intensive efforts exerted by all the ministries, institutions, authorities, government apparatus, and the civil society, that clearly contributed to curtail the spread of the disease, and decreased the infected cases, which primarily reflected their main concern to ensure human rights for all the citizens and expatriates in general, and their human right for health and medical care in particular. 45. NIHR commends the generous initiative adopted by Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa - wife of the beloved HRH the King of Bahrain, President of the Supreme Council for Women(SCW)- whereby the SCW launched the campaign (Together for Bahrain’s Safety), in cooperation with the National Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19), to pay back the debts of Bahraini women who were convicted and received judiciary sentences and their names appeared in the Ministry of Interior published lists on “Fael Kheir” application. 46. NIHR also commends the humanitarian initiative launched by HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the Representative of His Majesty the King for Humanitarian and Youth Affairs, National Security Advisor and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Humanitarian Foundation (RHF), to raise funds through “Feena Khair” campaign to assist the adversely impacted Bahraini families by that coronavirus pandemic. Appreciating the contributions of all parties involved to the success of this campaign, which portrays the societal empathy and solidarity, and fosters the concepts and principles of human rights for all members of the community. 47. In this respect, NIHR would like to extend sincere thanks to HE the Minister of Health for her appreciated cooperation with NIHR to arrange and facilitate all the matters related to its work. Further thanks are extended to the head and members of the National Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) for their efforts to place precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the virus, as well as all the frontline people working round the clock to face this crisis. 48. More thanks are extended to the responsible authorities of the isolation and quarantine medical centers which NIHR visited and communicated with, for all their exerted efforts to support NIHR in performing its tasks, and who continued to cooperate and stay in contact till filling the “survey” completely. NIHR acknowledges the significant role performed by all the volunteers who participated in precautionary measures and assisted the medical staff in doing their job in various specializations. 49. The field visits conducted by NIHR to the isolation and quarantine medical centers affirmed its main role as stated in its establishing law regarding conducting announced and unannounced field visits to monitor the human rights conditions in the correctional and detention places, workers gatherings, NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 25

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