Does it really mean much that Dr. Jalila Sayed Jawad is now the Minister of Health? Will she really be given the freedom to implement her vision and correct the imbalances in medical services and care for Bahraini cadres?

My Saudi friend recounted that his father suffered pain in his heart and chest 15 years ago, so he took him, along with his mother, to the emergency unit of Al-Salmaniya Medical Complex, and said that they were astonished by the way Bahraini doctors and nurses treated them.

Out of 16820 COVID-19 tests carried out on March 28, 2021, 1027 new cases have been detected, 309 of whom are among expatriate workers, 702 new cases are contacts of active cases, and 16 are travel related, the Ministry of Health announced.

Dr. Kassim Omran, who currently resides in the United States, considers the non-involvement of the newly graduated Bahraini doctors in specialty training a fatal blow, or at a minimum, very harmful to their career.

Who has made the training program which is currently applied at the Ministry of Health to train and hire graduates? How long has it been made? Is it still suitable? How long does the graduate doctor spend to graduate from this program?

As the world's countries are working on giving the appropriate recognition to the medical sector, being the sector that is trying to save the world from the Coronavirus pandemic, the Bahraini authorities are finding ways to complicate recruitment and training of medical and nursing graduates.

Manaf Al-Qahtani, member of the National Medical Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus, said that Bahrain made an order last August to purchase more than 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Bahrain announced on Wednesday it would end a protocol that required all those arriving in the country to self-isolate at home for 10 days regardless of the outcome of testing, its health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Chinese state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm has begun Phase III clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in Bahrain, after launching similar trials in the United Arab Emirates last month, Bahrain's health ministry said on Monday.

The Health Ministry announced on Saturday (June 27, 2020) the deaths of 5 citizens from Covid-19. This takes the total number of fatalities in the kingdom to 78.

The Health Ministry announced the death of 83-year-old Bahraini woman from Covid-19. This takes the total number of fatalities in the kingdom to 72.

Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway have rolled out some of the most invasive COVID-19 contact tracing apps around the world, putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, an Amnesty International investigation reveals.

Bahrain has registered more than 18,000 COVID-19 cases until Monday (June 15, 2020).

Bahrain has become the fifth country cross the world in terms of Coronavirus cases with respect to population.

The Health Ministry announced on Saturday (June 6, 2020) the death of a 46-year-old expatriate.

The Health Ministry announced the 20th death from the Coronavirus. The deceased is a 37-year-old expatriate man who had underlying and chronic health conditions.

The authorities in Bahrain made surprising decisions towards easing the restrictions they imposed to face the Coronavirus pandemic. However, the increase in infections and fatalities raises doubts regarding the new approach.

Bahrain reported two deaths from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Sunday (May 31, 2020), bringing up the death toll to 19.

Bahrain reported two deaths from the coronavirus (Covid-19) tonight, bringing up the death toll to 17.

The Health Ministry announced 14th Covid-19 death. The 44-year-old male expatriate had been placed in isolation and received extensive 24-hour treatment from a specialized medical team, the ministry said.