MoH did 9 million page views in 2 months

TDT | Manama

The Ministry of Health website, since the first case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Kingdom, has racked up more than 9 million page views.  The website, the Ministry of Health’s Information and Planning Department said, has seen steady growth in page views over the past couple of months. 

Bahrain confirmed its first COVID-19 case when a school bus driver returned from Iran via Dubai on 21 February 2020.  The staggering number posted by the authority also confirms that the website is becoming more and more popular among people in the Kingdom, especially in conjunction with various activities planned by the national campaign to combat COVID-19 infection.

The authority said it recorded approximately 250,000 views on the page displaying the results of the coronavirus tests and more than half a million views on the contact tracing page. 

The Coronavirus Test Results E-Service enables the public to check the results of the conducted Coronavirus COVID19 tests maintained by ISEHA. (https:// www.moh.gov.bh/CovidResults)

Med home delivery

The ministry further said it is providing the general public here access to several facilities like remote consultation and provision of drug delivery on its website in a bid to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the Kingdom.

  The drug delivery, since the launch of SMC Medical Prescriptions Delivery Service on the ministry’s website, handled approximately 8,200 requests within a month and 1,200 requests in less than a week of the launch. 

According to the ministry’ website, “The eService facilitates the process of booking a medical prescription delivery service with the SMC pharmacy as it allows the user to request the delivery service online.”  To avail the service, use the link (www.moh.gov.bh/eServices/pharmacy).

Upon registering, the service will send the user an SMS with a request number. However, this service will not include controlled medications and medications dispensed from health centres, which is a different service.

Drugs will be delivered based on approved medical prescription found in the patient’s electronic file in the system (I-Seha) at the time specified for delivery. For obtaining the service of the health centres for chronic patient medications, use this link (https://www.moh.gov.bh/eServices/Hcpharmacy).

This eService facilitates the process of booking a medical prescription delivery service with the Health Centre pharmacy. This service also does not include controlled medications.  MoH website also has links to YouTube channels that live streams various programmes and awareness films.