Concerns over Irish owned medical university

The Government’s refusal to intervene in the case of an Irish-owned university in the Middle East which has been at the centre of human rights abuses is to be aired before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today.

RCSI-MUB (Medical University of Bahrain) is owned by the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and accredited by the Irish Medical Council.

Accreditation from Ireland, which is an internationally respected stamp of approval, was first sought early in 2011 but was not granted until late 2014 because a Medical Council assessment of the facility was postponed amid pro-democracy protests in Bahrain and a violent government crackdown.