فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
The Healthcare Sector Union Coordination announced in a statement issued on Friday, November 1, 2024, the organization of a national strike on November 7 and 8 across all hospital, preventive, and administrative health institutions, with the exception of emergency and intensive care departments.
This decision comes after what the statement described as silence and lack of response from the Minister of Health and Social Protection to the sector’s demands, and the violation of the first point in the July 23, 2024 agreement with the government, particularly regarding maintaining civil servant status and centralized wages with permanent positions.
The protest program includes several escalatory steps:
- Holding a press conference on Thursday, November 7
- Organizing a national protest in front of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection headquarters
- Boycotting the implementation of health programs and administrative meetings
- Boycotting mobile units and medical caravans
- Boycotting non-emergency surgical operations programs
- Boycotting specialized medical examinations in hospitals
The statement held the government and the supervisory ministry fully responsible for the deteriorating conditions in the sector, calling on healthcare workers to mobilize, remain vigilant, and engage in all protest activities in defense of their legitimate and fair demands.
The statement emphasized that these actions come after multiple correspondences with the Minister of Health and Social Protection that went unanswered, despite the urgent nature of the issues at hand. The unions consider this lack of response a negative indication following the governmental modification in the health sector, expressing hope that this does not reflect an absence of genuine political will to solve the public health sector’s problems or compromise acquired professional rights, which they consider a red line.
