The MS requests the appointment of 1500 doctors, 700 nurses, 800 pharmacists, pharmacy assistants and accountants

The Ministry of Health has asked the Ministry of Labor represented by the Jobs Fund to support the recruitment of a number of medical cadres through three-year contracts, including a residency program for 1,500 physicians , 700 nursing badistants, 200 pharmacists, 300 pharmacist badistants and 300 lawyers.

The request of the Minister of Health, Dr. Saad Jaber, in the context of a serious shortage of cadres and near the opening of the new salt hospital with a capacity of 350 beds and the Extension and modernization of the Department of Internal Medicine and Surgery of Al-Bashir Hospital with a capacity of 400 beds. However, in some specialties the Ministry needs the stock available in the Service Bureau, stressing that the appointment system's contracts are intended to give new graduates the opportunity to train and work within the framework of the Ministry of Health. to reduce unemployment, especially in medical specialties, explaining that appointing a large number of doctors and nurses to fill the shortage.

For their part, the doctors of residence and the public doctors protested against the request of the Ministry of Health, considering it as a clear and clear violation of the program of residence of the doctors, affirming that the contracts of residence are required by the lack of minimum rights for health.

Those who rejected the request said that changing the ministry's residency program policy would result in the closure of appointments and reduce the resident's salary from 750 dinars to 250 dinars a month, hoping that they would not be able to pay for them. a large number of doctors would use it, especially the unemployed.