Dr. Gearóid Ó Cuinn:

We can only see from what it has said publicly. We have pointed out that its strategic plan does not even mention the impact the unrest has had on the health sector. It is not clear. We have also learned from Médicins san Frontières that it attempted to screen a film, "Access to the Danger Zone", narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis. This was pulled in mysterious circumstances after an e-mail had been sent to staff and students. After Professor Tom Collins resigned, there has been a silence on the issue. It cannot even have a conversation on medical ethics. What does it say about the position of doctors who are in hospitals and people who are being trained on medical ethics? These students graduate with National University of Ireland, NUI, degrees. Is it appropriate that they are graduating with this level of fear and mistrust, where they cannot even bring up medical ethics in a conversation?

Its position is not clear. After Professor Collins resigned, a delegation went to Bahrain, but it appears it did so to apologise. Nothing was released in favour of Professor Collins's position or on the issue of medical ethics as an area of acute concern for Bahrain.