By Raji Unnikrishnan
ONLY 36 per cent of the country’s emergency physicians are women, mirroring the global gender disparity in the speciality.
Two of the 13 certified emergency medicine (EM) consultants are females, while one of the three medics heading emergency departments at Bahrain’s three public hospitals is a woman.
The statistics were revealed by Bahrain Medical Society president Dr Ghada Al Qassim, who stressed the need for more women physicians in the kingdom, especially in the field of emergency medicine (EM).
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