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Delegation travels to Bahrain in bid to secure doctors’ release

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Delegation travels to Bahrain in bid to secure doctors’ release
03 July 2011 By Susan Mitchell Health Correspondent

An Irish delegation that includes several politicians plans to travel to Bahrain on July 12 in an effort to pressurise the Bahraini authorities to release arrested doctors and nurses there.

The group will include MEP Marian Harkin, former minister for foreign affairs David Andrews and Fianna Fáil senator Averil Power.

The group wants the Bahraini authorities to release the doctors and nurses who were arrested during the pro-democracy demonstrations in the Gulf nation earlier this year.

Their plight has been followed by the world’s media but has a particular resonance in Ireland as three of the Bahraini doctors trained at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).

The group includes orthopaedic surgeon Professor Damien McCormack, who is one of a number of doctors to criticised the RCSI for its failure to condemn strongly the actions of the Bahraini authorities.

The RCSI’s critics claim it has been compromised by its financial interests in Bahrain. The RCSI denies this. It said working quietly behind the scenes was more effective. …more