34. Moreover, the Economic Vision (2030) and the National Economic Strategy (NES), included a number of initiatives related to the field of the right to health which aims to encourage patterns of a healthy life, and enabling easy and fair access to high-quality healthcare services, and assuring the existence of a just organization of the healthcare system in the Kingdom, and with a view to develop manpower in the field of healthcare the Economic Vision (2030) a number of relevant commitments were made, and also the National Economic Strategy was revised and amended to ensure the improvement of the health sector through enhancing preventive health for the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and to achieve effective integration and complementarity between the health services offered by the Ministry of Health and other governmental institution with a view to focusing on the needs of the patient. 35. In addition to providing quality health services through maintaining international accreditation of facilities and ensuring their compliance with the National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA) standards, and obtain all the healthcare services, particularly primary and secondary healthcare, through visiting medical facilities and endeavouring to reduce the waiting periods in those facilities. 36. Moreover, the (NES) included a commitment to bolster the role of the Ministry of Health in drawing policies and reviewing the administrative arrangements in harmony with best international practices, and to sustain health services through developing the sustainable arrangements of funding, and to meet future demand for specialists in healthcare, and improving the administrative systems, and also improve the equality of the infrastructure, alongside a fair organization of all the providers of health services in the public and private sectors through establishing and operating the National Health Regulatory Authority (NHRA). 37. Furthermore, the Kingdom of Bahrain announced the health strategy for the years 2015-2018, which included (6) important strategic goals represented in: protecting the health of the population through promoting health and prevention, the integration of services in the health system within the Ministry of Health and other governmental and private institutions, quality, the access of all to healthcare services, strengthen the role of the Ministry of Health in setting policies and good governance, and sustaining the health services. 38. In order to achieve those goals the Ministry of Health drew up (20) initiatives, most importantly promoting the patterns of a healthy life, endeavour to reduce the ratio of affliction by noncommunicable diseases, strength protection from communicable diseases and new illnesses, develop a system to manage research and connect it to the concerned quarters, and promote partnership with the private health sector. 39. Moreover, the present condition of the health sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain was evaluated where it became evident that there are several challenges in the path of implementing the strategy, most prominently: demographic change insofar as the increase in the ratio of the elderly, alongside the population increase and the rise in the average age, the outcome of which is mounting pressure on the use of public health facilities and services in the Kingdom of Bahrain. 89

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