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Freak accident man dies
A HOTEL technician died early yesterday morning from injuries he suffered in a freak accident involving projector equipment.
Rafique Adam Qazi, from India, had been in a coma at the Salmaniya Medical Complex’s (SMC) intensive care unit ever since the incident at the Mercure Grand Hotel, Seef, on Tuesday.
The GDN exclusively reported yesterday that he [...]
Baby deaths blamed on bad planning
AN MP yesterday blamed Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer for the growing death rate of premature newborn babies due to bad planning.
Sayed Jameel Khadim said that current specialised ICU facilities at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) were below international standards, where there were shortages of beds as well as insufficient numbers of nurses [...]
Bahrain to Restrict In Vitro Fertilisation
Health authorities in Bahrain plan to impose restrictions on In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) to reduce death cases among premature babies here.
A draft law is being prepared by the ministry of health to monitor private hospitals and clinics to prevent unnecessary IVF procedures performed by them to make profits.
A total of 250 premature babies died out [...]
Design firm chosen to help develop Bahrain “Health Island”
UK management and engineering firm Mott MacDonald has been appointed by Ithmaar Development Company to provide infrastructure design and supervision services for Dilmunia Health Island. The first of its kind, this new health island, is set to be an international health and wellness facility in a resort-style environment based on a 125 hectares man-made island [...]
Full StorySetting an example
Health Minister Dr Faisal Al Hamer became the first person in Bahrain to take the swine flu vaccine yesterday.
He helped kick start a government campaign to vaccinate the population against the deadly H1N1 virus, which has already killed six residents.
Dr Al Hamer was among more than 500 people vaccinated during an event at the Hamad [...]
Schools blow
THOUSANDS of children went back to school yesterday – only for many to be told to go home again for another week.
The government “strongly advised” private schools at a meeting yesterday to postpone reopening for further week, to build in an incubation buffer for any potential swine flu cases.
The call came at a meeting [...]
Flu Battle Stepped Up
Bahrain stepped up its swine flu defences yesterday, with schools reopening only to close again and a ban on pupils returning to classes within a week of travelling from abroad.
The government also approved a BD5.5 million cash injection to buy vaccines for the H1N1 virus.
It was approved by the Cabinet, chaired by Deputy Premier Shaikh [...]
Gulf hit by fresh swine flu cases
Saudi Arabia on Thursday reported yet more fresh cases of swine flu as countries across the Gulf see an alarming jump in the number of A(H1N1) infections.
Saudi’s Health Ministry said late on Thursday in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) that it had registered seven new cases of the deadly virus, [...]
Nurses threaten strike over pay
Nurses could bring Bahrain’s hospitals and clinics to a standstill unless the government responds to their demand for a 50 per cent pay rise.
Full StoryBahrain may allow sale of needles to drug addicts
Bahrain is in the process of allowing selling of needles to drug addicts to avoid the spread of Aids after studies revealed that addicts represent the highest percentage of sufferers of the deadly virus.
Like other countries Bahrain bans sale of needles for public safety reasons. However, this forced drug addicts to use needles that are [...]
Nail removed from man’s genitals
Doctors successfully removed a two-inch nail from a man’s genitals yesterday. The 37-year-old Indian underwent a non-surgical procedure known as a cystoscopy at Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC).
Doctors pulled the nail out of his urethra on their first attempt and later said the man could have died if the object had not been spotted on X-ray.
The [...]
3,000 Thai nurses to arrive in Kingdom
Thailand will send 3,000 Thai nurses to Bahrain soon to give a fillip to the Kingdom healthcare services.
They would be drawn from the trouble-torn southern provinces of Thailand and provided with requisite training, before being sent to work in hospitals in Bahrain, said Chakrapob Penkair, Minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office.
The decision was taken [...]
Bahrain turns pink!
Bahrain is turning pink as companies, schools and individuals join a nationwide initiative to raise money and awareness in aid of breast cancer.
A charity gala dinner, lectures and fitness activities are some of the events being planned to mark World Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which falls every year in October.
The Think Pink Bahrain initiative is [...]
Left to die
A probe is being launched into why it allegedly took an ambulance three hours to reach a dying woman yesterday. The Indian woman was found gasping for breath and frothing at the mouth in a dilapidated building in Umm Al Hassam, but was dead by the time paramedics arrived.
She was discovered by workers at a [...]
Suffering ‘caught on film’
An animal rights group claims it has photographic evidence of animal suffering taken at Bahrain’s only licensed salughterhouse, during an investigation conducted last December.
People for the Ethnic Treatment of Animals (PETA), who funded the study, told the GDN yesterday that investigators were refused permission to film inside the slaughterhouse in Sitra, but witnessed cruelty outside [...]
