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Bahrain debates patient charter

by ArabianBusiness.com staff writer  on Friday, 05 September 2008

Human rights activists in Bahrain are lobbying for a legally-recognised patient's charter, following a string of negligence complaints against the national health service.

Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society is submitting two draft proposals on patient rights to the Shura Council and parliament, for discussion in the next two months.

Faisal Fulad, regional and international relations director for the society and a member of the Shura Council, said he had received reports of suffering among children and young adults because of a complete lack of laws governing their rights as patients.

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"We see a lack of laws in Bahrain so I will submit these draft laws to the Shura Council in November for discussion," he told a press conference on human rights.

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