Bahrain : Hiding the truth?

Via Gulf Daily News :

" SALMANIYA Medical Complex (SMC) officials were yesterday accused of hiding the fact that Bahrain's latest sickle cell victim also suffered from H1N1.

Sickle cell campaigners made the accusation after it emerged from a blood test done on the day Manal Ahmed Hassan, 31, had died that she suffered from Swine Flu A.

"After her death, we were told by some SMC staff that Manal had been diagnosed with H1N1 just before she died," said Bahrain Society for Sickle Cell Anaemia Patient Care chairman Zakareya Ebrahim Al Kadhem.

"We decided to investigate further and we now have a report which confirms that this was the case.

"If she had been diagnosed with H1N1, the family should have been informed by the doctors immediately and she should have been moved into isolation.

"The family are shocked now that they know Manal had H1N1.

"They had believed so far she died of sickle cell complications."

Ms Hassan, from Karannah, was brought to the SMC on October 16 and was in the Accident and Emergency Department's Resuscitation Room (RR) for two days.

Her family was allegedly told that there was no room in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)."