case, and it became evident that the patient was admitted to intensive care from the moment he entered the Salmaniya Medical Complex. 2. The NIHR also monitored a personal appeal made on social media that (E.M.E.) which had a traffic accident in one of the Gulf countries, which led to him being immobile (movement disability), and that he requests that the State cover his treatment expenses outside the Kingdom of Bahrain. Accordingly, the NIHR contacted him, and it assisted to follow up with the High Committee for Overseas Treatment of the Supreme Council of Health, which, in its turn, followed up the issue with the person concerned, in accordance with the applicable controls and regulations. 3. One of the cases monitored by the NIHR focused on the death of the citizen (A.A.A.) because he was injured while exercising in a club in the Kingdom, during the health center in his area was closed and a private hospital refused to provide him with the necessary health care. Accordingly, the NIHR addressed the concerned persons in the Ministry of Health to provide it with data and statistics in this regard, but the NIHR did not receive a reply during the timeframe of this report. Noting that the NIHR viewed the directives issued by His Highness the Prime Minister and the Crown Prince regarding the around-the-clock (24/7) operation of a number of health centers including the health care center subject to this monitoring case. 4. One of the cases monitored by the NIHR was about the paralysis of a child after receiving the appropriate treatment was delayed. The child was transferred to the United Kingdom for hospitalization at the State’s expense, but a decision was issued to stop his treatment and return him home. The NIHR immediately followed up, with the concerned staff in the Ministry Health and sent a letter in this regard. The Ministry’s reply clarified that the child’s treatment was not stopped, but rather the child was transferred to complete his treatment in Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Humanitarian City in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the consent of the father of the child. The Overseas Treatment Department at the Ministry of Health made the necessary arrangements to start the patient’s treatment. 5. In a related context, the National Institution for Human Rights monitored news on social media that a Bahraini citizen entered a hospital abroad after exhausting the available treatment methods in the Kingdom, and was unable to complete the remaining stage of his treatment, due to weak financial ability. His family appealed the public to help them defray the costs of his treatment. The National Institution for Human Rights contacted the patient's family to obtain details of his health condition, follow up on Ninth Annual Report of the NIHR 104

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