19-05-2025
BD16.67mln spent on outsourced staff for hospitals and health centres
Twenty companies are supplying 1,430 workers including cleaners, barbers and programmers to Bahrain's hospitals and health centres under contracts worth a combined BD16.67 million, the Ministry of Health has said.
The work is spread over 24 agreements signed by government hospitals and primary care centres, covering everything from security and transport to gardening and IT support.
Funding comes from Chapter Two of each entity's budget.
In a reply to a question by MP Khalid Buanaq, Her Excellency Dr Jaleela bint Al Sayed, the Minister of Health, said the contracts followed the separation of healthcare bodies from the ministry as part of a wider shift to give hospitals and clinics more say in their own dayto-day operations.
Each body is now able to make its own arrangements so long as it sticks to the public tender law, its executive rules and the state's financial rulebook.
Hospitals signed 13 contracts with nine companies to supply 1,008 workers.
The largest of these was a BD3.705 million deal for cleaning Salmaniya Medical Complex.
Other sums included BD563,612 for cleaning services at Jidhafs Maternity Hospital and several health centres, BD646,937 for administrative offices, BD34,584 for the Psychiatric Hospital and BD9,900 for Muharraq Special Healthcare Centre.
Transport work was covered by a BD192,000 deal for 21 drivers. Laundry duties were filled under a BD327,000 contract for 29 staff.
