Public sector doctors refuse to hand over medical certificates due to “sinful agreement”

Agadir24

The Public Sector Doctors Syndicate announced its refusal to issue driving licenses and all types of medical certificates, with the exception of sick leave certificates accompanying treatment, throughout the month of August, calling on the Ministry of Health to open an urgent dialogue on the complete file of demands of doctors, pharmacists and dental surgeons in the public sector.

The union expressed its deep dissatisfaction with the conditions witnessed by the sector, at a time when the agreement signed between the health unions and the Ministry of Health and Social Protection was expected to end the series of congestion that paralyzed public hospitals for continuous weeks.

After describing the signed agreement in a statement as a “farce and a sin,” the Doctors’ Union decided to continue its “struggle” by announcing “holding local meetings to study the scientific conditions of medical practice and writing to the administration locally to impose the scientific conditions of medical practice and sterilization conditions within all health institutions and surgical complexes, with the exception of urgent cases only.”

The Doctors Syndicate confirmed that it “will boycott the school health campaign due to the absence of minimum medical and administrative standards, in addition to boycotting random surgical campaigns that do not respect the recognized medical standards and patient safety conditions.”

In addition, the union announced a “boycott of medical convoys and all non-medical administrative work, most notably periodic reports, client records, and statistics, with the exception of notification of compulsory illnesses, declarations, and administrative certificates, with the exception of birth and death certificates, and administrative and training meetings.”

On the other hand, the same union body stated that it “will boycott coverage of demonstrations that do not meet the conditions contained in the ministerial circular regulating the process of medical coverage of demonstrations.”

The Public Sector Doctors Syndicate concluded that the agreement signed by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection is a “deception, betrayal and denial of the sacrifices of generations who have taken it upon themselves to provide public health services within a dilapidated sector and in miserable conditions.”

In light of this, the same union called on the Moroccan government to “open the doors to serious dialogue and adopt a real participatory approach instead of the current approach based on dictates and imposing a fait accompli without involving the unions,” stressing that “this is a sensitive and pivotal stage in the history of the health sector and requires more cohesion, sacrifices and a long-term struggle.”