Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh, a physician and a former 2012 presidential candidate, called on president Mohamed Morsi to heed the demands of medical doctors, who have been on strike for almost a month, and argued that they should be granted better working conditions to improve the country's health care system.

The doctors are calling for pay raises and an increase in spending on health care from 4 per cent of the budget to 15 per cent to deal with deteriorating public health services.

President Mohamed Morsi's met Saturday with the main three former presidential candidates, Amr Moussa, Hamdeen Sabbahi and Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh, held in an effort to kickstart a national dialogue between varied political forces. The discussions mainly revolved around the newly proposed constitution, the revolution's demands, and the need to reach consensus during the transition period.

Abul-Fotouh also stressed to Morsi the importance of reaching consensus in the Constituent Assembly suggesting that articles creating the disagreement within the assembly should all be reconsidered as well as those that infringe upon the rights of Egyptian citizens.