MP Seroor seeks nursing Bahrainisation timetable

TDT | Manama

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MP Dr Muneer Seroor called for clear figures on current Bahrainisation levels in hospital nursing and a timetable for reaching 100 per cent at Salmaniya Medical Complex and health centres.

He told Parliament yesterday that the government had supported the aim but had not given the numbers or a path to get there.

During debate on the proposal, Dr Seroor welcomed the government’s reply and its view that Bahraini staff should be first in line for hiring, calling that a good sign.

But he said the response stopped short of giving the present share of Bahrainis in hospital nursing or saying when the target would be met.

He said the proposal was not meant to make hiring harder or pile on red tape.

Hiring

Its purpose, he said, was to widen the hiring of Bahraini staff in a field tied closely to people’s health and their sense of safety in the health system.

Dr Seroor said reaching 100 per cent Bahrainisation in primary healthcare centres was an achievement worth praising, but said it also raised a fair question: if that had been done there, why not in government hospitals too, above all at Salmaniya.

He said this called for a clear staged programme, especially with trained nursing graduates leaving college each year and looking for work.