Manama, Feb. 1 (BNA): Health Minister, Faeqa Saeed Al Saleh, issued a statement marking the Gulf Patient Rights Day in which she has expressed gratitude and appreciation to HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa the Prime Minister and HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, who have placed the citizen’s health and welfare on top of national priorities.
Article (A) of the Bahrain’s Constitution stipulated the right of each and every citizen to health care. The State is concerned with public health and provides the means of protection and medical treatment through the establishment, manning and running of all types of hospitals and health institutions all over the country in line with the Universal Human Rights Convention that stipulates the right of each and every person and family to a standard of living that ensures their good health and wellbeing.

Also, articles (9) and (12) of the Universal Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stipulated the right of each and every individual person to obtain social security and the right of every human to enjoy highest possible level of physical and mental health attainable, the minister stated.

The Kingdom of Bahrain has always been keen and assumes full responsibility regarding the health care of its citizens.

The ministry continues to provide latest hi-tech health services and has allocated the required budget to achieve that goal. The ministry provides multi-disciplinary easily accessible and affordable high quality health care to patients in full privacy, in the hospitals and health centres in close proximity of residential neighbourhoods and workplaces to achieve the concept of maintaining public health as part of human development in the community and preservation of human rights, the minister explained in her statement.

The Kingdom of Bahrain represented in the Health Ministry had taken the initiative of enforcement of the Convention on Rights and Duties of Patients related to Primary and Secondary Health Care and compliance therewith by healthcare services providers in the kingdom, said the minister.

Bahrain has always been concerned with children’s healthy upbringing from the moment of a child’s being conceived and born and throughout a lifetime in a healthy environment , physique and psyche. The State is committed to the provision of preventative health care and treatment of contagious, chronic, vocational diseases. Health for all patients is the ministry’s obligation and duty as stipulated in the Kingdom’s Constitution and implementation codes, Health Minister Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh affirmed.

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BNA 0830 GMT 2016/02/01