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Health professionals expressed their concern about some of the provisions of the draft Finance Law of 2025, especially those related to financial positions, which raised questions and concerns among professionals.
The union coordination for the health sector said that the aforementioned requirements were formulated in a way that does not reflect or confirm what was agreed upon on July 23, 2024, especially with regard to the legal and employment situation, expressing its fear that the government will reverse its obligations and not fulfill its disbursement of wages from the state’s general budget in stable financial positions.
In this context, the coordination expressed in a statement its rejection of “any kind of evasion, circumvention, or interpretation in the formulation of the two main focal points in the agreement signed with the government, which are preserving the status of a public employee and centralizing wages.”
The same coordinator considered that the two aforementioned points “are not amenable to any other reading or formulation different from what was agreed upon, considering that preserving the gains is a constitutional and legal principle binding on the government towards health workers.”
In addition, the health unions stressed their complete rejection of what was stated in some of the provisions of the draft finance law, because “instead of moving towards devoting an increase in the financial positions allocated to the sector every year, and maintaining the centralization of wages with permanent financial positions, there is talk of eliminating the positions after a period.” Directing its path towards the unknown.”
The same source considered that “changing the style of managing the health sector within the framework of strategic public institutions of an administrative nature does not mean eliminating the financial positions that govern the sector or linking them to a timetable.”
Accordingly, health unions called on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance to withdraw from the aforementioned requirements in the form that was proposed, and to amend them immediately, in order to preserve acquired rights and professional stability.
In addition, the unions called on the government to “carry out actual, practical and urgent incentives for health professionals, instead of violating the first point of the agreement and creating new conditions of tension in the sector,” rejecting any “retreat on all the points mentioned in the recent agreement.”
The unions representing the sector’s professionals concluded by emphasizing their refusal to “pay health professionals the price of haste and wrong approach to reforming the health system, because that will doom the entire reform to failure,” while holding the government responsible for the anxiety and tension within the sector due to “not fulfilling promises and obligations and pushing the sector into the unknown.”
The coordination confirmed that it would send messages on the matter to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance, and the heads of the parliamentary teams in the House of Representatives and the Council of Advisors, while calling on all categories of health workers to mobilize and prepare for all future stations and possibilities.
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