Recommendations Pertaining to Health
to choose or refuse certain measures
and in times of crisis.
1) Text of the Recommendation:
Expedite issuance of a law on medical
liability to provide an integrated and
overarching legislation specifically concerned with delineating the rights and
duties of patients, doctors and
healthcare providers, and the consequences of violations.
The concerned authority stated that the
Law on Practicing Human Medicine and
Dentistry Profession regulates the rights
and duties of patients, doctors, and
healthcare professionals as it establishes maintaining the confidentiality of
information and not divulging it except
in cases regulated by law. Once the
Medical Liability Law is issued, all aspects related to the rights and duties of
patients and doctors will be addressed.
Moreover, the Ministry undertakes
awareness initiatives in this regard.
Summary of the Ministry of
Health’s response:
The concerned authority stated that
there is a draft law on medical liability currently before the Council of
Representatives, on which the Ministry of Health presented its views.
The report of the competent committee was submitted to the Bureau
of the Council. The National Health
Regulatory Authority is the entity
that is authorized to investigate and
consider complaints abouts medical
errors. It is also the body responsible
for setting the standards for hiring
physicians, nurses and pharmacists
to ensure the quality of healthcare
provided.
Summary of the Ministry of
Health’s response:
Summary of the Supreme Council of Health’s response:
Summary of public hospital’s
response:
The NIHR have not received a reply
during the time frame of this report.
3) Text of the Recommendation:
Develop alternatives for having a single
medical complex that encompasses all
medical specialties and receives all patients (citizens and residents) from the
different regions of the Kingdom,
which has resulted in the deterioration
of provided healthcare services and decline of its quality.
Summary of the Supreme Council of Health’s response:
Summary of public hospital’s
response:
The NIHR have not received a reply
during the time frame of this report.
4) Text of the Recommendation:
2) Text of the Recommendation:
Increase the number of healthcare centers and maternity hospitals, as well as
the medical staff in the governorates,
so that it is proportionate to the number of patients attending them in each
governorate to cope with the rapid
population growth in the Kingdom of
Bahrain.
Generate further awareness and familiarize stakeholders with the rights of
patients and doctors and their duties
and responsibilities towards each
other when providing healthcare, particularly in the freedom of the patient
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