Tunisia: Doctors to go on strike in February

Tunisia’s Association of Young Doctors announced a three-day general strike from 6-8 February to protest against the health ministry’s failure to respond to their demands.

The association’s Secretary-General, Jaad Al-Henshiri, said yesterday that the prime minister expressed his opinion on a draft resolution regarding the status of interns and residents and returned it to the ministry on 23 November 2017.

“Since then nothing happened,” Al-Henshiri said, expressing dissatisfaction with what he considered negligence by the supervising authority in issuing the order.

Al-Henshiri called to revise the wages of doctors who had been working for one year in the public health services in the framework of national service and increase their salaries from 750 dinars ($294) to 1,200 dinars ($504).

Interns, resident doctors and medical students will take part in the mass walk out which will include all medical divisions in public hospitals except emergency departments.

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