PRIVATISATION of pre-employment medical tests for newly-hired expatriates in Bahrain is expected to bring down Health Ministry’s spending in this sector by more than 50 per cent. It will now have to spend only BD20 per employee for standard medical services, compared with the BD50 earlier, according to officials. Continue reading
Companies in Bahrain will be bound to pay the annual fee for all their local and expatriate workers in exchange for the government-provided medical services after a new health care system for the private sector came into effect yesterday. Continue reading
The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) and Health Ministry decided to develop the existing medical checkup for expatriate manpower and link the system with the GCC medical checkup system for expatriate workers that is scheduled to be launched in January 2012. The decision was made during a high-level meeting on October 17. Continue reading