Pharmacists Dissatisfied with Health Minister's Statement and Call for Referral

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The statements of the Minister of Health at a meeting with a number of pharmacists in Port Said province on Saturday angered the medical community, especially among pharmacists, whom they qualified of "continuous criticism and ongoing attacks against them".

"The absence of pharmacists will not cause a crisis in the new comprehensive health insurance system, while questioning the importance of conducting graduate studies or additional studies after the end of the year. University, "said Dr. Ahmed Aliwa, general secretary of the Union of Pharmacists of Port Said.

The union of pharmacists in Port Said called these statements "hostile and repetitive with regard to pharmacists in Egypt", adding in a statement Sunday that these statements prove that they are far from the methods Modern management because the administration is not along the river, encouraged and motivated.

At first, the Union of "Pharmacists of Port Said" called for an urgent meeting during this week in Port Said for all councils of pharmacists unions of different governorates of the republic and the executive committee of General syndicate of pharmacists to debate a collective position that expresses all pharmacists of Egypt, Port Said only with regard to the statements of the Minister of Health.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Health, the Minister of Health at a meeting with pharmacists in Port Said said that there was no pharmacy in traditional form in the new system Medicare, led by the application of clinical pharmacy.

Hashtag has released the "Health Minister's dismissal" Twitter "since Saturday night, about 66,000 tweets, and has backed comments from the leaders of the Syndicate of Pharmacists to revoke the minister.

This is not the first time that the Minister of Health severely criticizes pharmacists. She also criticized a meeting of the parliament's health committee in early February to increase the number of college graduates of pharmacists: "Belzmouni is the most expensive of pharmacists." "" Stand in the street, Bidoni, 16,000 pharmacists, I want 3,000, "replied the minister.

"The Minister of Health has become a burden on the government," said Dr. Ahmed Farouk, a member of the Pharmacists Union. This is not the first time that Egyptian pharmacists are insulted and underestimated. They demanded for several months and during the crisis of the mandate that they remain in the street "All pharmacists were indicted yesterday.Yesterday, they reprimanded the pharmacists of Port-Said and did not know their role in the health system for create a new crisis. "

Farouk Lamasraoui said that "the health minister had prepared doctors before that and was the reason for the mbad resignations of thousands of people at the Ministry of Health to create the biggest crisis of doctors in the history of the profession. , and then challenged the House of Representatives, who has called dozens of times for problems demanding his dismissal. "

Dr. Essam Abdul Hamid, the union officer of the pharmacists, confirmed the refusal of the council of the union and members of these statements.

"The minister has been attacking pharmacists since coming to power," said Abdul Hamid Lamasrawi. "Earlier, she had threatened to go without a number of pharmacists in Port Said before Dr. Khalid al-Nouri, head of the health care organization, intervened and rebadured pharmacists.

He explained that pharmacists received many courses and exercises and that many of them had obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in his specialty.

"The ministry currently employs pharmacists in management and supervisory positions, even before the minister takes office, and they called the Ministry of Health" a campaign of 100 million people "and more than 60% of pharmacists .. we will not let him go.