The Jordanian News Agency (Petra) quoted the Jordanian Minister of Health, Nayef Al -Fayez, as saying that Jordan puts its health capabilities in its public and private sectors in serving the Bahraini health sector, and Jordan's readiness to secure Bahrain's needs of medical, nursing and technical cadres..
The agency indicated that the Jordanian minister's statement came during his meeting yesterday, "Tuesday", with his Bahraini counterpart, Faisal Al -Hamr, who expressed Bahrain's needs for many medical, nursing and technical cadres to work in various health sectors.
For his part, the Assistant Undersecretary for Human Resources and Services at the Ministry of Health, Hassan Jaber, told Al -Wasat that the ministry is currently conducting a study of its need for health and support professions during the next ten years, and indicated that the ministry has not finished studying yet.
Jaber pointed out that employment is continuing in the Ministry of Health and does not stop.
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Hassan Jaber, the assistant undersecretary for human resources and services at the Ministry of Health, said, “The ministry is currently conducting a study for the ten years coming to develop a vision for its need for health and support professions, and indicated that the ministry has not ended from it until now and will be announced upon completion of what it includes from the new projects to be opened..He pointed out that employment is continuing in the Ministry of Health and does not stop ».
For his part, the head of the Bahraini Doctors Association, Ahmed Gamal, said, "The ministry currently needs at least 600 doctors in order for the average doctors to the population to the global rates that spoke about the assistant undersecretary for training and planning in the ministry" to the center "a few days ago, which is 26 doctors per 10 thousand people».
"The majority of doctors in the government sector are Bahrainis, but in the private sector, the majority of doctors are foreigners, and as I said, doctors are still needed in Bahrain.".
Asked if the new doctors in Bahrain cover the shortfall, he replied, "The new graduates of doctors need five years to finish basic training programs, and if they succeed, they need two years to specialize, and the graduate doctor needs six years to become a specialist and ten years to become Consultant, and this is if we take into account that it will always succeed and pass all programs in its time, but the presence of trained doctors is important because they provide during their training service and there is a need for them, training in the government apparatus is important and government hospitals are found in most secondary specializations such as general surgery, kidneys, ear and throat in addition to specializations The Trinity is like kidney transplantation and cochlear cultivation ».
And on the most sections that suffer from a lack of doctors, Jamal mentioned, "according to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, the most in the emergency, and in general" salaries "in Bahrain is few and the consultants are hesitant to come to Bahrain because of this, and in the emergency there are doctors from India and some Arab countries such as Tunisia".
"There is a need for foreign elements in private hospitals and in certain departments in the government sector and we are trying to reduce this need, but we are not with the ministry's contract with any country, but it must be compatible with the study of real needs and that the coverage be studied without the crowding of the Bahraini doctor.".
The head of the Bahraini Nursing Association, Rola Al -Saffar, stated in a previous conference that in Bahrain about 6715 nurses and 3000 of them work in the Ministry of Health, and indicated that the nurses rate to the population is currently 26 nurses per 10 thousand people, while the rates that the ministry talked about in the sector development booklet indicates the sector's booklet.Health that there must be 90 nurses per 10 thousand people.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Health is currently approaching the completion of the employment of 135 nurses for all hospitals and departments.
The head of the Ministry of Human Resources at the Ministry, Hakim Al -Hayki, stated in a previous statement to the “center” that 50 new nurses are Bahraini and 88 of them are foreign women, some of whom are local employment, and pointed out that part of the nurses are a bachelor’s degree in nursing..
In a related context, the deputy head of the nursing in the hospitals of the Ministry of Health, Aisha Al -Atawi, said: “In the Ministry of Health there are always nurses for employment and there are procedures that have not yet ended because there are nurses retired in addition to the resignations.” She indicated that the ministry has a shortage of nurses specializing in emergency departments, maximum care and heart careAnd the cheerful, and this attributed this to the development of the bachelor’s campaign to increase the demand for a bachelor’s degree more than specialization in nursing to put a bachelor’s campaign on the specialized schedule in the staff, which called on the diploma campaign to demand and pay attention to studying a bachelor’s degree until they move to the specialized schedule.
It is noteworthy that the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Abdul Hay Al -Awadi, stated in a previous meeting, “In the middle, the ministry currently has nine thousand and 110 employees, 1103 of them are doctors and 2856 nurses..
Al -Awadi pointed out that the total number of nurses in the ministry reached 2856 nurses in the past year, and added that the percentage of citizens in nursing in Bahrain is high compared to the Gulf states and Europe has reached 64.5 percent, while the proportion of foreigners reached about 30 percent of the nurses.
Meanwhile, the Jordanian News Agency, Petra, quoting the Jordanian Minister of Health, Al -Fayez, said that Jordan puts its health capabilities in serving the Bahraini health sector, both public and private, and securing it with its needs of medical, nursing and technical cadres qualified during its meeting yesterday, "Tuesday", its Bahraini counterpart, Faisal Al -Hamr,.
During the meeting, Al -Hamr pointed to his country's needs for many medical, nursing and technical cadres to work in the various health sectors, and the two sides agreed to form work teams to study the needs of medical, nursing and technical cadres and the mechanisms of their implementation within a timetable.
During the meeting, important topics were discussed that included the field of training for doctors, nursing and supportive medical professions, the field of exchanging experiences for doctors, nursing and supporting professions and the possibility of using Jordanian medical cadres, including doctors, nurses, and supportive medical professions, treatment abroad in addition to benefiting from the experience of health insurance for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.