Health

Bahrain

Grants & Concessional Finance
The Govt. of India gifted 100,000 doses of made in India Covishield vaccines to Bahrain in January 2021. Earlier Govt. of India provided 1.5 million Hydroxychloroquine tablets on commercial basis and facilitated travel of nurses and medical professionals to Bahrain, besides keeping supply lines open for Bahrain and other GCC countries for essential trade, food products and medicine etc.

Knowledge Creation and Sharing
India and Bahrain have had economic and trade relations for over several centuries; these relations received fresh impetus from the oil boom of the early seventies. Relative prosperity and higher standard of living in Bahrain boosted global imports of goods and services, including from India. Bahrain Government's policy of industrial diversification also played an important role in enhancing economic co-operation between India and Bahrain.