Regional Council Statement of the National Union for Public Health Reveals Important Protests and Decisions

In a statement issued by the Regional Council of the National Union for Public Health, a founding member of the Democratic Federation of Labor in the Fez-Meknes region, the union revealed a series of protest activities and important decisions taken during the Regional Council meeting held on September 13, 2024.

According to the statement, the region witnessed an intense program of struggle and organization, including a protest stand organized in front of the Regional Directorate of Health and Social Protection in Fez on Thursday, September 12, 2024. Protesters raised strong slogans against the arbitrary transfer of territorial health groups, demanding the preservation of public employee status and centralized wages.

Among the key decisions taken during the meeting were:

1. Reaffirming the principles of struggle in the health sector, especially maintaining the status of public employees and centralized wages.
2. Expressing absolute solidarity with various professional groups suffering from marginalization or exclusion.
3. Emphasizing the need to enable health workers to access their delayed financial rights in various health institutions.
4. Rejecting the exclusionary policy towards administrative and technical staff working in various health programs.
5. Strengthening the organizational structure regionally and locally through activating the work of internal committees.
6. Approving the need to hold regular regional and local meetings to outline an escalating program of struggle.
7. Calling for a national council meeting as soon as possible to clarify visions and explain steps for managing the current phase.

The Regional Office of the Union emphasized that it is in the process of outlining an escalating program of struggle to gain and protect the rights of health workers, calling for the necessity of rallying around their long-standing union framework.

In conclusion, the Regional Office renewed its call for health workers to maintain the highest levels of vigilance and mobilization, and not to be drawn into any attempt to fragment the health body, emphasizing the importance of unity of destiny for health workers.