The High Administrative Court upheld the decision of the National Health Regulatory Authority to de-list license of a doctor and remove his name from the records of the authority after exceeding the limits of his license and performing cosmetic surgery for a woman who suffered from serious medical complications.

The Bahraini Ministry of Health (MOH) has denied reports of the outbreak of a virus or bacteria in the air, which resulted in 8 kidney failures in child patients, which required them to undergo kidney dialysis.

The Bahraini Interior Ministry announced on Saturday (June 15, 2019) the launch of the National Ambulance Project, according to which ambulance services are transferred from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Interior.

A member of the Finance and Economic Committee, MP Ahmed Al-Salloum, said that the health insurance project will be fully implemented by 2020, according to the what was stated by the Minister of Health Fa'iqa Al-Saleh during a meeting with the joint committee between the Shura and Representatives Council yesterday.

Data systems at the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital have crashed by cyber attacks and may take at least three to four days to resume, reported the Gulf Daily News.

The head of the endocrine unit at Salmaniya Medical Complex, Dr. Hussein Taha, said that according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the prevalence rate of diabetes in the Kingdom of Bahrain amounted 16%, equivalent to 200,000 people diagnosed with the disease in the country.

The Executive Director of the National Health Regulatory Authority, Mariam Al-Jalahma, refused to exempt anyone from any financial penalties, stressing that the fines are government fees and paying them is obligatory according to the law.

The report of the Financial and Administrative National Audit Office for the years 2017 and 2018 revealed that the Mortality and Complications Committee at the Salmaniya Medical Complex has been suspended since April 30, 2017.

National Audit Office report revealed that the quantities of drugs dispensed exceeded the quantities prescribed medications by doctors.

Rights Activist Ibtisam Al-Sayegh said a prisoner is suffering from severe pain in his teeth, forcing him to use diluted Clorox to relieve the pain, especially since he was not referred to a doctor and did not receive any treatment.

Bahraini Ministry of Health Undersecretary said Ministry launched an urgent emergency plan after the bus accident that took place in Saudi Arabia to provide support and treatment to all the injured.

Bahrain has announced hundreds of nursing jobs in India, at a time when the number of the unemployed in the nursing domain rises.

Local Bahraini newspaper said Health Ministry set up a five-member medical committee to investigate an antibiotic drug believed to be unfi.

Head of National Health Regulatory Authority of Occupations and Services revealed that the Authority has recorded a number of health violations and many advertisements that exceeded the permissible limit.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that it is attentively and carefully working on monitoring the health situation in Bahrain after the scabies outbreak in the region.

Foreign doctors make up more than a quarter of the members of the Bahrain Medical Society, whose board of directors members are due to be elected on April 7.

“There are Bahrainis who are graduates of the Arab Gulf University working in private hospitals for very low salaries, and the salaries of some may not even exceed 300 dinars.”

Bahrain has lost the services of 117 doctors, according to official figures issued by the Ministry of Health. The statistics show that the number of physicians in the public health sector declined over the past four years by 9.1%.

The Ministry of Health announced the cancellation of the medical examination of expatriate workers at Al-Razi health center and its transfer to the private sector at the end of March 2018.

The Ministry of Health in Bahrain said that medications that have approached their expiration date do not lead to any side effects or affect the patient’s health.