Bahrain Report: The Ongoing Assault on the Health System (Physicians for Human Rights)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:47
In April 2011, two months after the start of mass protests and a month after the regime tried to crush them with security forces backed up by outside military forces, Physicians for Human Rights issued a report, "Do No Harm: A Call for Bahrain to End Systematic Attacks on Doctors and Patients".
A year later, two PHR investigators, Holly Atkinson and Richard Sollom returned to the Kingdom to assess the situation. They conducted 102 in-depth interviews, including patients, doctors, and government officials, examined medical records and radiographic images, visited Salmaniya Medical Center twice, and went to an “underground clinic".
Yesterday, PHR released the findings, "Under the Gun: Ongoing Assaults on Bahrain’s Health System", summarising the politics around medical care.