Call over Bahrain medical college

Human rights lawyers have urged the Medical Council not to sanction accreditation for an Irish medical college’s operations in Bahrain.

Call over Bahrain medical college
Thu, 30 May, 2013 - 09:37

Human rights lawyers have urged the Medical Council not to sanction accreditation for an Irish medical college’s operations in Bahrain.

The Ceartas group has claimed the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Bahrain has been overseeing the teaching of medics in the troubled Arab state while some patients are tortured and doctors imprisoned.

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