Healthcare provision and products
The GCC Healthcare sector is set to grow five-fold by 2025
Every country in the Gulf is investing significant resources in new hospitals and medical facilities to provide their citizens with the best healthcare available. Bahrain is at the heart of this.
There is also a growing demand regionally for healthcare products, such as pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Bahrain is an ideal base from which to serve this market.
The market for health provision in Bahrain itself is growing strongly, aided by our strategic position next to Saudi Arabia, the Gulf’s largest market. Twenty new healthcare centres have been built in the last 30 years. There is demand too for health resorts, like the Bahrain Wellness Resort.
A qualified labour forceBahrain can also provide a qualified labour force; presently the vast majority of physicians (83%) and nurses (60%) are Bahraini nationals.
Within Bahrain a strategic reform programme is now underway across the entire healthcare system, and we have established a new quality authority.
OpportunitiesIn order to deliver a world-class service, Bahrain will need medical technology, management services and comprehensive programmes to deliver care.
Specific investment opportunities exist in primary care, specialised clinics and treatment facilities, and elderly care.
In addition we will need more medical training institutions, like the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, who have successfully established in Bahrain.