THE importance of building trust between the public and the healthcare system in Bahrain and the rest of the Middle East was highlighted at a major medical conference yesterday.Speaking at the three-day Bahrain International Conference on Family Medicine and Primary Healthcare, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training director Prof Salman Rawaf said that there was a lack of trust in doctors in the region as a whole, and steps need to be taken to rectify that .