health and education homes, and any other suspected places of potential violation of human rights. On another hand, it aimed to observe on the ground the quality of the services and facilities provided for the quarantined and isolated cases in quarantine and isolation centers, to preserve their health and that of their families, and on a third hand to follow up the availability of various human rights that should be there under these circumstances in accordance with the international treaties and conventions. 50. There is no doubt this report will add a new success to the Kingdom of Bahrain successes in the field of protection and promotion of human rights in general, and in health and food in particular. At the same time, it also reiterates the continuation of NIHR steady path it intended for its work ensuring being present in various situations, and committing to transparency and neutrality in its work to fulfill the various principles of human rights. 51. As a result of the above, NIHR prepared model survey questionnaires to be answered by the quarantined and isolated persons and the medical staff, to monitor through them various rights and duties that should be available at the quarantine and isolation centers, like the right to health, the right to food, and the right to freely communicate with the external world through modern channels. To ensure neutrality and transparency, the quarantined and isolated people as well as the medical staff who were contacted, were allowed the freedom to reply to the survey questions as mentioned in this report above. 52. Regarding the isolation and quarantine medical centers that were visited and communicated with their residents being patients or medical staff, as a result of the answers received on the survey questions and the various points tackled for this purpose, NIHR would like to clarify the following issues: 53. There was a unanimous agreement on the adequacy of the precautionary measures undertaken for the people staying in the isolation and quarantine medical centers. Furthermore, the majority of the isolated and quarantined people considered that other organizational measures were also adequate pertaining to the spacious place and suitable furnishings, providing daily personal hygiene supplies, organizing all matters relating to the family and relatives visits to the quarantined people, providing various services to enable the isolated and quarantined people to communicate by phone around the clock, cleanliness of the quarantine and isolation places and facilities, quality and variety of meals and offering snacks between meals, receiving needed medication and treatment, and maintaining contact with the external world by using their mobile phones. 54. From their side, the medical staff commended the leadership and significant role performed by the National Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus (COVID-19), They also commended the efforts of their brothers and sisters the volunteers, and the good follow-up of the responsible authorities and the NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 26