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Public sector doctors decided to join the groups that announced protests in the health sector, as an expression of their rejection of some of the requirements contained in the draft finance law for the year 2025.
In this context, the Independent Union of Public Sector Physicians announced a series of protests, the first of which is “refraining from handing over all types of medical certificates except for medical certificates accompanying treatment, boycotting the OSIX program and programs similar to it, boycotting the school health campaign, surgical campaigns, medical convoys, and reports.” Periodicals, servient records, and administrative meetings.”
In a statement, the union called on the government to “respect its obligations and withdraw from the draft laws and decisions included in the Finance Law, instead of rushing to try to impose a fait accompli even at the expense of striking the gains of all health workers.”
The representation of public sector doctors explained that its refusal to sign “the bad agreement last July with the government, its reasons became clear to everyone (…) as it was only a prelude to demolishing one of the most important pillars of reform, which is valuing human resources and giving them a stable legal framework that motivates giving and giving.”
Public sector doctors criticized what they called “the falsity of government claims and promises, through successive shocks and the government’s continuous retreat from all its obligations and its failure to respect all promises, beginning with the draft decrees related to the Model Basic Law, which contains within it explosive chapters that deeply strike a group of basic rights and previous gains.”
This comes at a time when intern doctors and residents, in turn, announced a national strike on October 22, 23, and 24, in protest against “the Ministry of Health’s total disregard for their demands, which has worsened their conditions and contributes to the deterioration of the quality of health care provided to citizens.”
According to what was reported by the National Committee for Internists and Residents, in a statement, a national strike will be launched for 72 hours, with the exception of the urgent care, recovery, and intensive care services, in denunciation of “the intransigent and indifferent approach followed by the Ministries of Health and Higher Education in dealing with the sector’s crisis, which reflects the absence of… The real will to improve professional conditions and provide appropriate conditions.”
For its part, the National University of Health – Women and Men of Health called for a partial cessation of work on Wednesday, October 23, for an hour, starting at eleven in the morning, in front of or at workplaces, while carrying the protest badge and continuing to carry it, while organizing regional vigils and partial sit-ins in front of… Regional directorates of health.
The union body reported that this escalation came after a meeting held by the National University of Health on Wednesday, October 16, according to which the demand was affirmed to amend Articles 15, 16, 17 and 18 of Law No. 22.08, as well as a comprehensive review of Law No. 22.09 related to the health sector, and to withdraw the decrees that had been passed. In the Government Council on July 11, 2024.
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