PREGNANT women are putting their lives at risk by taking black market drugs to induce illegal abortions, says a leading doctor.
They are so desperate to abort their baby because of the social stigma attached to sex outside marriage that they are willing to pay as much as BD200 for the pills.
Women also risk being jailed [...]

A ‘HEALTH bus’ will soon start roaming the country’s villages and remote areas to spread awareness thanks to the initiative of a Bahraini health expert.
Health Ministry health education director Dr Amal Al Jowder is using a $30,000 (BD11,340) cash prize she received from the World Health Organisation’s Sasakawa Health Prize for 2009.
Dr Al Jowder, who [...]

BAHRAIN is sitting on a health time bomb unless it does more to promote healthy lifestyles, according to a top official. Health Ministry health education director Dr Amal Al Jowder delivered the warning after a survey revealed that 94 per cent of the population eat fast food an average of three times a week.
It also [...]

7th December 2009 Bahrain —  New medical care standards may soon be in place at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) Accident and Emergency Department, Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer said.
Speaking at the opening of the 21st Congress of the International Academy of Pathology – Arab Division yesterday, Dr Al Hamer said a team from [...]

6th December 2009 : Gulf Daily Bahrain Authorities are reviewing a request by medical professionals to open a full-fledged police station at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC), to tackle continued assaults and threats against hospital staff.
The Bahrain Medical Society (BMS) has appealed for action, saying healthcare workers were repeatedly being targeted by patients and their families [...]

Fifty seven percent of doctors and 67 percent of dentists working for the Bahrain Ministry of Health are women, the latest government figures reveal.
The data for last year shows that women are making in-roads in the healthcare sector, in particular Bahraini’s, who make up a large proportion of the ministry’s female staff.
Sixty percent of all [...]

Kingdom of Bahrain’s free healthcare system is in jeopardy from rapidly rising costs of healthcare in the country, the Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer said on Monday.
The kingdom’s annual health budget, currently BD170m a year, is set to more than triple to BD553m by 2025, making free care for all [...]

Bahrain is winning the battle against swine flu, with one of the lowest infection rates in the world.
Tough measures have so far kept the infection rate at less than one per cent of the population, said Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer.
He also insisted the government’s budget was enough to combat any future outbreak of [...]