The movement, Atebaa Bela Hokouk (Doctors Without Rights), said their members will protest in front of the cabinet building should the general assembly of Egypt’s Medical Syndicate fail to meet with Prime Minister Essam Sharaf.
The medical syndicate general assembly set a list of demands following their referendum. A committee was later formed to bring those demands to PM Sharaf in a meeting in the near future.
Although the demands were agreed upon through the referendum, some members of affiliated syndicates expressed some reservations, which exasperates Atebaa Bela Hokouk, making them weary of a possible postponement of the meeting due to an inability to agree on what demands to bring.
“We want the general assembly’s decisions to be fully respected,” Mona Mina, spokeswoman of Atebaa Bela Hokouk, told Ahram Online.
“The general assembly’s list really reflects what the majority want.”
“We might rally in front of the cabinet if the meeting is postponed as a result of those who object now.”
One of the committee’s demands is to allocate 15 per cent of the nation’s budget for developing hospitals and medical services in Egypt.
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