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Report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry Feb. 20th. [B]oth were outside the working hours and not interfering with patient care or obstructing the hospital gates. 354 (5) Discrimination based on ethnicity or sect 742. The authorities alleged that during the events of February/March 2011, certain members of the medical staff violated the Bahrain Medical Society Charter of Medical Ethics and discriminated against patients based on their ethnicity or sect. Such discriminatory acts against patients took the form of mistreatment, harassment, unlawful detention and denial of medical care. These allegations are based on, first, specific incidents surrounding the treatment of naturalised Bahrainis and expatriates on 13 March 2011 and, second, the overall drop in the number of patients attending SMC due to the security risk. 743. On 13 March 2011, clashes occurred between anti-government and pro-government protesters. These clashes resulted in injuries to expatriates and naturalised Bahrainis, some of whom were sent to SMC. Government accounts are based on first hand witness statements. An SMC surgeon testified in court that on 13 March 2011 he witnessed two individuals, one Bahraini and one naturalised Bahraini of Syrian descent, being taken to the Emergency Section with severe head injuries, apparently suffered during protests at the University of Bahrain. 355 He said he heard one accused doctor shout, “Get these mercenaries away and throw them out and let BDF Hospital treat them”. Another accused doctor intervened and tried to calm him down and told him to keep his voice down. Another doctor then came and treated the patients, who were subsequently taken to BDF Hospital. 744. The SMC surgeon further stated that later that night he saw a Bahraini Shia security guard beating a Pakistani man in a wheel chair, so he went up to him and said, “If you do that again I will cut your hand off”. Nurses then intervened to calm the situation. Minutes later he went to the Emergency Section and saw three of the accused doctors with a Shia cleric talking in a low voice to an Asian man on a bed, which he thought was very suspicious. The Chief Resident Doctor stated that on 13 March 2011 he witnessed two Pakistanis, who had been brought in ambulances and who had their hands tied, being attacked by protesters. 356 He stated that the doctor referred to in the preceding paragraph attacked one of the patients, pulling him violently, and asked the Chief Resident Doctor not to “release the handcuffs of the animal”. He also witnessed this doctor attack other injured patients. 745. It was alleged that the accused medical staff discriminated against expatriates and did not give them similar treatment to that received by Shia patients. The Commission received video footage showing an interview given by one of the accused doctors to the media in which he stated that not all patients were protesters, but that some were expatriates who worked for the security forces. He shows a table housing the identification of patients, 354 Email sent to the Commission on 13 September 2011 (original English text). 355 See Case No. 191 of 2011. 356 Interview with the Commission, 30 July 2011. 190
Chapter V — Events at Salmaniya Medical Complex making no attempt to hide the identities of the patients. Other video footage depicts an SMC nurse treating a patient of Asian origin. While treating the patient she was asking him why he was hurting the Bahraini people. 357 746. One account of a patient unable to reach SMC was provided by a woman who was three months pregnant at the time. 358 She reported that due to road closures and protesters on the street, it took her approximately three or four hours to drive to her routine appointment at BDF Hospital. Once there, her physician noticed that she had uterine bleeding. He told her that she should go home and rest, but that if the bleeding continued she should call an ambulance or go to a hospital immediately. On 15 and 16 March 2011, she continued to bleed but was unable to go to a hospital because of road closures and chaos on the streets. She did not go to SMC because she had heard television reports that armed opposition protesters had occupied the hospital. She stated that she felt she could not go to SMC because, being Sunni, she did not think she would be safe or receive proper medical treatment there. On 17 March, she miscarried. She called BDF Hospital for an ambulance but they were unable to send an ambulance because of the security situation. Her husband drove her to a private clinic but after being admitted she found that she would not be able to afford treatment there and so she left. She was eventually admitted to Muharraq Hospital, where the attending physician told her that she had lost her baby and that this was because she had been unable to receive medical treatment during the two days of bleeding. 747. Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society presented a file to the Commission that included cases of three individuals who claimed that they were refused treatment or were verbally abused by medical staff at SMC because they were Pakistani. 359 748. One doctor stated that one accused doctor gave her attention to injured Shia patients rather than Sunnis. 360 749. The Commission received several complaints alleging discrimination against Sunni patients by medical staff at SMC. These included accusations of medical negligence and denial of medical care. The Commission received video footage of a man carrying a young child and attempting to enter SMC. 361 The video shows three medical personnel who prevent him from gaining access to SMC. He states that if he were Shia he would not have been denied access. 750. The accused medical personnel rely on statements by Prosecution witnesses, as well as the video clips presented above. An Undersecretary of 357 Video footage received from the MoI. 358 Witness statement provided to the Commission, 9 September 2011. 359 File on abuses against expatriate workers provided to the Commission by Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society. 360 Interview with the Commission, 30 July 2011; Minutes of court hearing on 30 June in Case No. 191 of 2011 (Military Prosecution witness statement). 361 Video footage received from the MoI. 191
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