Bahrain committed to healthcare: Minister

Muhammad Azam/DTNN

Manama

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Bahrain is fully committed to provide its citizens the best healthcare services, said Health Minister Sadiq AbdulKarim Al Shehabi. 

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the First Annual Gulf Healthcare Summit here yesterday. Shehabi asked the international organisations to come forward and join hands in sharing their specialised knowledge and expertise with Bahraini counterparts.

Emphasising the Ministry’s keenness on organising such events for the improvement of the healthcare services, he commented: “Such conferences can play a vital role in bringing our doctors, nurses and the paramedical staff on equal terms with their international counterparts.” 

Speaking to DT News, Senior Advisor to Ministry of Health Mohammed Jassim Mohammed said that the main goal of the Gulf Healthcare Summit was to provide an opportunity to the caregivers, including doctors and nurses to have firsthand interaction with the world-class experts. 

He said that Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) was one of the biggest hospitals in the region and the quality of healthcare was very much there.

Jassim opined that accreditation bodies were important to examine and measure the services of the hospitals and advise them where they really stood in terms of healthcare.  

Main organiser of the conference and Chief Executive of Roshcomm M. A. Sridhar remarked, “We are not going to talk about medicines or art of healing here. We are going to talk about administering quality service and manageing patient safety.”

Around 15 to 20 speakers would interact with the local bodies and hospitals, doctors, nurses and primary health service providers and help them to be able to enhance the existing practices in terms of patient quality and healthcare service facilities.