HRH the Premier yesterday instructed Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer to upgrade the Salmaniya Medical Complex Accidents and Emergency Award. Chairing yesterday’s Cabinet session, he also gave directives to step up…
Category: Health Care
Health centre work on track
CONSTRUCTION work on a second health centre in Isa Town is progressing well, it has been declared. Health Ministry engineering and maintenance director Mohammed Al Qahtani said the BD2 million facility, the…
Health tips from experts
A RECEPTION for visiting health and medical experts from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand was held at the Golden Tulip hotel. Agents, local doctors and pharmacists attended the event during which experts promoted…
Diabetes alert for newborns
Figures released yesterday show the number of babies born with type one diabetes in Bahrain has more than doubled in the past 15 years. Latest statistics show that 20 in 100,000 children…
Healthcare boost for growing population
Several new government hospitals will be built in the coming years to cater to an expanding population, Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer revealed yesterday. King Hamad General Hospital, Busaiteen, is due…
Bahraini victim of swine flu
Bahrain has recorded its latest swine flu death, the GDN learnt yesterday. A Bahraini, in his 40s, who contracted the virus last month, died at Salmaniya Medical Complex on Tuesday. A Health…
AMH to build new hospital
PLANS for a new, state-of-the-art American Mission Hospital (AMH) were revealed yesterday during an official visit by Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer. AMH chief medical officer and chief executive officer Dr…
‘Bad habits’ alert over obesity
BAHRAIN’S “killer” lifestyle accounts for more than 40 per cent of the country’s deaths, an expert said yesterday. People’s “bad habits” are the major cause of increasing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, which…
Probe launched after young patients catch Hepatitis C
AN investigation has been launched into how two Bahraini teenage sickle cell patients contracted Hepatitis C disease during a blood transfusion. The first victim, known only as Wala’a, allegedly caught the disease…
Immunisation call to pilgrims
HAJ pilgrims from Bahrain are being urged to take all necessary vaccinations well before they travel to Saudi Arabia. Health Ministry public health and primary care assistant under-secretary Dr Mariam Al Jalahma…
Sickle cell death families to sue
FAMILIES of seven people who died of sickle cell disease are planning to sue the Health Ministry after it absolved itself of blame for their deaths. The victims, including two women, are…
New health guidelines
NEW rules are being drawn up to stop alternative medicine getting “out of hand” in Bahrain and other GCC countries, it was revealed yesterday. The guidelines, which are intended to check the…
Tributes to cancer victim
TRIBUTES have been paid to Bahrain resident Mary Hamilton Fellowes who lost a three-year battle against cancer. A bursar at the British School, the 59-year-old passed away at Bristol Royal Infirmary in…
New health push
WORK to revamp an overcrowded 25-year-old health centre in the Northern Governorate is set to begin early next year, it has been announced. The Northern Municipal Council has reached an agreement with…
Wheelchairs donated for children at SMC
THE Muqabah Charity Fund yesterday donated eight wheelchairs for children’s use at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC). The donation was part of the fund’s Make a Child Happy campaign, under which toys…