JAMA – Human Rights Report Details Violence Against Health Care Workers in Bahrain
[cb Editor Note: The balance of this article has not been seen here so it’s conclusion and analysis are unknown. It does seem an article of significance. It would be good to see it published without profit motive from JAMA. It’s viewing in entirity is contingent on subscription to JAMA. ]
Human Rights Report Details Violence Against Health Care Workers in Bahrain
M. J. Friedrich – Journal of American Medical Association
When antigovernment protesters marched in February and March of this year on the streets of Manama, the capital of Bahrain, peacefully calling for political and economic reforms, a brutal response by the country’s security services followed.
The majority of the injured and dead were brought to Salmaniya Hospital in Manama. Rather than being a safe haven for the wounded, however, this facility, the largest modern medical facility in the country, was declared by the government to be a stronghold of opposition protesters. Security forces occupied the building. According to human rights organizations such as Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), patients were beaten and abused. Physicians, nurses, and other health care workers who treated the civilian protesters were systematically abducted, detained, and interrogated, and many now are facing trial for allegedly using the hospital as a base to try to overthrow the royal government. …more