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758 Records of Bahrain
1.
CONFIDENTIAL

Recommendations for tho
Re-organlzation of Health and Hodlonl
Services of Bahrain
SECTION I INTRODUCTION

During rooent years there has boon very rapid development in the
appreciation by the publio of the value of curative and preventive
medicine. Few public services affeot tho individual or the family
more than tho modioal services. As a result, the genorul publio is now

fully awaro of tho importance of those services, particularly the
ouratlvo services in their daily life, Bahrain is no exception tp the
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rule. Tho health and medical services of tho Bahrain Government have
dovelopod vory rapidly in rooent years. They have therefore become tho

Vlotim of their popularity among tho public because the work has ln-
oreasod so rapidly that some re-organization and re-enforcement of the
administrative structure, and of the hospital and preventive services
is now urgently required. The following table of the medical work-
oarrlod out in the last 3 years in Bahrain shows tho steady increase in
work which is taking plaoe.

Out Patients In Patients
1151 Males 186,306 3,183
Females 191,315 3,583

1258 Males 256,231 3,673
Females 278,057 4,494

1252. Males 312,716 3,818
Females 323,655 4,834

In-patient figures show that 1 in 15 of the population is ad­
mitted to Hospital every year — that is - 4 admissions in tho lifo time
of every inhabitant in Bahrain.

Out-patient figures indicate that there are 3 tlinos as many out­
patient; attendances a year as tho total population of Bahrain.
Turning to the preventive side, small-pox has been effectively dealt

with and tho incidence of malaria reduced by efficient control to
negligible proportions except in an abnormal malaria season under