Second Annual Report of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) 2014 - Kingdom of Bahrain • Urging the Government to create suitable centers to accommodate all victims of trafficking in persons, including victims of forced labor and male victims of trafficking in Persons, which correspond to the magnitude of this crime, and providing these centers with experienced staff in health, psychological, social, and legal fields to provide all means of support to the victims. • Urging the Government to activate the provisions of the Law to Combat Trafficking in Persons, prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes, and conduct training programs to raise the efficiency of some of the competent authorities, especially judges, public prosecutors, public security officers, the Ministry of Labor inspectors, and workers in the recruitment offices. • Considering and allowing the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, of the Human Rights Council, to visit the Kingdom. RIGHT TO HEALTH • The need for the Ministry of Health to adopt and implement a national health strategy, for the purpose of improving health services, in line with the requirements of population growth. • The Ministry of Health needs to increase the accommodation capacity of Salmaniya Medical Complex, so as to improve health services. • The National Commission Regulating Medical Professions and Health Services needs to improve its supervision of health services to ensure avoiding the occurrence of medical malpractices. • The Ministry of Health needs to develop a system for monitoring drug inventory and consumption rates in order to avoid drug shortage or non-availability in pharmacies, ensure satisfaction of the needs of patients, and have easy access to drugs. • The Government needs to provide support to civil society organizations working in the health field to enable them to achieve their goals in all fields stated in their statutes. • The Ministry of Health needs to increase safety standards in the field of prevention of communicable and epidemic diseases in health canters and government and private hospitals. • Considering and allowing the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to visit the Kingdom. • The Ministry of Health needs to pay more attention to sickle-cell anemia (SDC) patients and multiple sclerosis (MS) patients by increasing awareness of this disease in the medical field, as well as improving health care and the provision of all medical requirements, and ensuring prompt provision of these requirements, in accordance with a comprehensive national strategy in this regard. RIGHT TO EDUCATION • Urging the Ministry of Education to take measures to ensure the immediate cancellation of wood desks in public schools, in view of the negative effects and risks of these desks on the students. • Urging the Ministry of Education to review the citizenship curriculum content in order to include a number of subjects that develop a culture and practice based on the promotion of respect for human rights. • Urging the Ministry of Education to control private education, so as to make sure that the private educational and training institutions, in particular, private higher education institutions, give priority to the educational and the academic aspect over for-profit education. • Considering and allowing the Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on the right to education to visit the Kingdom. 22