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.
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