No medical mistakes in public healthcare last year: minister

TDT | Manama

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Bahrain’s public hospitals recorded zero medical errors last year, Health Minister Dr Jaleela bint Al Sayed Jawad Hassan has announced.

Speaking in response to a parliamentary question by Shura Council member Dr Ibtisam Al Dallal, the minister confirmed that Salmaniya Medical Complex and other government-run facilities had no reported incidents in 2024 — a significant improvement from seven cases the year before.

Primary healthcare centres across the Kingdom also reported a clean record for the year, according to data from the National Health Regulatory Authority.

Dr Jaleela noted that the number of medical errors in previous years was already low and not concentrated in any one department. In dental clinics within hospitals and health centres, only one case was recorded in 2023, with none last year.

In the private healthcare sector, five cases were reported across two years — four in 2023 and one in 2024 — involving fields such as emergency medicine, urology, nephrology, general medicine, and dentistry.

Private clinics and medical centres registered a total of 24 medical errors over the same period: 13 in 2023 and 11 in 2024. Most were linked to dental procedures, accounting for 11 cases in 2023 and five in 2024.