جمعية الأطباء تشيد بتوجيهات سمو رئيس الوزراء بتشديد الرقابة على الأداء الطبي للمؤسسات الطبية والعاملين فيها

By | July 29, 2016

 

Dr.  Mohammed RafieThe head of the Bahrain Medical Society, Dr. Mohammed Abdullah high directives of His Royal Highness the Prime Minister to tighten controls and procedures that prevent medical errors and determine the error – that occurred – and causing it and hold him accountable in accordance with the rules and regulations in force and promote the registration of medical errors and processed in any public medical institution or mechanisms Especially.

He stressed that this generous guidance in line with the general orientation of the doctors in Bahrain who have their patients special and distinctive relationship because of the small Bahraini society, every patient is either a relative or friend or has a link to one form or another doctor, and the public doctors does not accept nor justify medical errors occur, as long it called to provide all means and possibilities to reduce them and to identify the technical and administrative reasons and study a scientific study minutes away from the passion and then processed and reduce them as much as possible, and expressed d. High pride Assembly professional level of doctors and scientific and professional competence.

The price of the President of the Assembly, both the Supreme Council of Health and the Ministry of Health and the National Authority for regulating the professions and health services to accelerate activating the directives of His Highness the Prime Minister’s initiative and stressed the full readiness of the Assembly to cooperate with the Commission in the adoption of hours of continuing professional education program and link the renewal of medical licenses, including doctors need to be at least 40 hours of training per year and 30 hours for nurses and 20 hours of medical professions auxiliary, where this program ensures the involvement of health workers is compulsory in continuous training programs to ensure the renewal of their knowledge and skills and inform them of the latest developments in the scientific and health developments.

In the same context, Dr. Rafi, a member of the Accountability Commission, the National Authority for the organization of professions and health services member, in his capacity as president of the Medical Association, the procedures and decisions of the Commission in this regard would provide an enabling environment to deal with the issue of medical error in a scientific and fair, away from the hype and throwing charges haphazardly without proof.

He pointed out that the Kingdom of Bahrain has one of the lowest medical error rates in the world, citing the National Authority statistics for the organization of health professions, which said that “since 2010 has completed the investigation of 404 complaints proved them only 77 and the existence of the practice of offense and turned the disciplinary committees of the various which ended to prove the existence of default in (17) only the case constituted an offense punishable by law included a medical error or practicing a profession without a license or sale of drugs at a price more than the specified drug has been transferred to public prosecution and punishment in this case determined by the competent judicial authority. ”

President of the Medical Association stressed the importance of the body duty towards the medical responsibility and medical errors with the utmost transparency, clarity and legal discipline to ensure that all parties all the rights of both patients and their families from the report of the error and accounting at fault or the violator of the report of the right to defend him and to ensure full impartiality and independence of the investigations and all accountability procedures in order to reach the truth without defamation or endangering the reputation of persons or institutions to slander before the accounting and report.

He praised the efforts of the Ministry of Health to improve the output and performance of the medical staff of the ministry, referring to the role of the ministry and all health institutions in Bahrain in providing the necessary cadres protection and ensure that they are not subjected to pressure the charges before deciding on the investigation on the subject of the issue of medical error, and the provision of support and support environment for medical staff, including easier for them to focus in sensitive work that requires dealing with patients and their lives.

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