Coordination committees accuse health unions of marginalizing sector technicians and administrators, and warn against ignoring their demands

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The National Coordination of Administrative and Technical Staff accused the National Trade Union Coordination of the Health Sector of ignoring the demands of technicians and administrators in the sector, pointing out that there is a kind of “marginalization” of some of the demands of these groups by the coordination.

In a statement, the coordination committees criticized what they called “the marginalization and injustice suffered by administrative and technical cadres, as a result of the continued attacks on their rights and gains,” denouncing “the media’s refusal to deal with the demands of administrative and technical cadres working in the health sector, as is the case with other categories, as they are not mentioned at all as if they are not members of the health workers working in the health sector.”

The National Coordination Committees of Administrative and Technical Staff held Aziz Akhannouch’s government and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection responsible for any discrimination against the demands of administrative and technical staff.

Among the demands raised by the administrative and technical staff at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection are “adding credit years to the administrative and technical staff, similar to the rest of the health staff, promotion with certificates for university degree holders, eliminating the night shift system and replacing it with guard duty and increasing its value.”

In addition, these frameworks demand “unifying the standards for compensation for occupational hazards, which must be commensurate with the size of the great sacrifices made and still made by the administrative and technical frameworks within the health institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.”

The same frameworks stress the need to “preserve the status of public employees stipulated in the basic law of the civil service by amending the decrees issued unilaterally by the government, increasing the compensation for the tasks of administrative and technical frameworks, and expediting the addition of two new grades for all administrative and technical frameworks.”

It is worth noting that the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Khalid Ait Taleb, had announced reaching an agreement with the health unions regarding the demands file, indicating that the agreement “will be submitted to the Prime Minister for a decision.”

In response to an oral question about “the situation of health sector workers” submitted by the Democratic Confederation group during the oral questions session, Ait Taleb stressed that the social partners were contacted at the behest of the Prime Minister, where “the government’s presentation was presented on their file of demands, which included several demands.”

The same government official pointed out that after many meetings that reached about 54 meetings, an agreement was reached, considering that this step represents “a qualitative leap and a very important response,” while he confirmed that the government “is working to overcome various obstacles.”