Dozens of commissioned doctors staged a sit-in at the Doctors Syndicate, after a delegation of doctors and representatives of the syndicate reportedly failed to meet officials from the Ministry of Health. Ahmed Ismail, one of the protesting doctors, told Daily News Egypt that the issue is about the procedures of commissioning. Ismail explained that “we have more than 5,000 health units in Egypt. The Doctors Syndicate’s undersecretary, Mona Mina, told Daily News Egypt that the syndicate is trying to deliver the doctors’ demands to the Ministry of Health, the cabinet, and the parliament. Meanwhile, some educational hospitals are trying to establish an empire of their own.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 02, 2017 15:00 UTC