They staged a sit-in and demanded measures to protect them. Iraqi doctors are angry at the killings

They staged a sit-in and demanded measures to protect them. Iraqi doctors are angry at the killings and kidnappings


 Baghdad / Range

The Iraqi Health Organization (IHO) on Tuesday condemned the assassination and abductions of Iraqi doctors in Baghdad last week. While criticizing the weakness of the authorities and their inability to protect health personnel, dozens of doctors in Baghdad, Samarra, Muthana, Diwaniyah, Karbala and Kirkuk organized a protest. The government and the parties concerned to protect them.


"We call for rapid and serious security measures to protect all doctors, cadres and health institutions. We also call for the formation of a crisis cell that will include representatives of the ministries of health and the interior, trade unions and concerned organizations, as well as the health committee," said Bassem al-Shihabi, head of the Iraqi Health Organization. And the environment in the House of Representatives, to take and implement the necessary decisions with the activation of the law to protect doctors and prevent the separation of tribal right, and re-work courts for cases of assault on doctors or issues between doctors and patients.
He added that "sit-ins organized by doctors in response to the appeal of the Syndicate of Doctors of Iraq, is the beginning of a wave of anger will include demonstrations and protest activities that may reach the sit-in, and here we call on the government to accelerate to meet the demands of the protesters, and warn concerned of the increasing migration of Iraqi doctors out of the country. If the security challenges they face continue. "
Al-Shihabi pointed out that "the anger engulfed the health circles after the assassination of the dentist, Shatha Faleh, who was working in the central child hospital in her home in the housing district and the assassination of Doctor Salim Abdel-Hamza in his clinic in the area of ​​the laboratories. Zaire ".
A number of doctors in Baghdad called on the government and the authorities concerned to protect them and intervene to stop bleeding of the Iraqi doctor.
Meanwhile, a number of doctors at the Samarra General Hospital staged a protest vigil against the repeated attacks on medical personnel by "criminal gangs", calling on the security authorities to provide security cover for their wounds, which "the forces of darkness seek to empty Iraq of these competencies."
In the province of Diwaniyah (180 km south of Baghdad), a number of doctors and health staff held a sit-in against the backdrop of a series of assassinations that hit a number of doctors in Baghdad recently.
The doctors put forward a number of demands for the president and the prime minister, including providing protection for medical personnel as a "national treasure" and holding an emergency meeting to bring doctors and security leaders together to provide the necessary protection for doctors.
The demands included activating the monitoring role of social media, including incitement to murder against doctors.
The head of the Karkh health department, Jasab Latif al-Hajami, said that the protests and sit-ins came in solidarity with the doctors after the escalation of attacks and abuses against doctors, appealing to the elders and elders of the tribes to declare innocence of every person who assaults the doctors.
"Al-Hajjami took part in the vigil organized by the medical staff in the city of Imam Al-Kadhimin (AS) Medical, in the presence of the Chairman of the Baghdad Provincial Council and doctors working in the hospital," the Karkh Health Department said in a statement.
The statement quoted Al-Hajami as saying that "this stand, protests and sit-ins came to solidarity with doctors, where the escalation of attacks and abuses on doctors as well as on the health and nursing staff and the subject of attacks is not new,
Is increasing dramatically because of the absence of deterrent laws against the aggressors as well as the existence of parties that want sabotage by emptying the country of scientific and medical energies. " He called on" governmental and non-governmental bodies as well as clerics and civil society organizations to take their role in society and take appropriate action to respond "They appealed to the elders and elders of the tribes to" declare the innocence of every person who assaults, humiliates or threatens the doctors or the medical, health and nursing professions working in medical institutions, and we urge the Iraqi judiciary not to tolerate the aggressors.
" Aaona great Otiqa between the health of Baghdad 's Karkh Department and union doctors, but do not want official bodies to form committees after each case of an attack , "adding that" these measures are useless , but we want an effective and deterrent measures and the solution is , however , the law and the security authorities. "

Doctors 'Syndicate: Our cadres are an easy target for the aggressors
Followed by the sit-ins A unified statement of the Medical Syndicate A copy of it was seen by the doctors' syndicate. "Since 2003, the doctors of the country have been fighting with the rest of the Iraqi forces of evil and facing the abhorrent sectarianism and rampant corruption in the Iraqi body. They have played the first role in dealing with thousands of victims of terrorism over the past 15 years during the occupation and the period of sectarian fighting. They saved many lives without discrimination between sects and other nationalities and faith in their duty towards their homeland. Old services to the children of the army, the police and the crowd in the popular battlefields. "
The union explained that it did not seek to mention all that " The Medical Syndicate announced the demands of the Iraqi health personnel to protect them and ensure the safety of their doctors, nurses and supporting staff in their profession and demanding that an emergency meeting be held between the medical union leaders and the security leaders in the presence of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, National wealth must be protected. The union stressed the need to activate the law protecting doctors and related laws that protect doctors, nurses and other health personnel under the supervision of the union, the Ministry of Health and the Supreme Judicial Council, which called for activating the public right and reinstating the special courts dealing with cases of assault on doctors. The union called for the formation of joint committees of medical experts to provide advice to the judiciary in cases against doctors by patients .. It called for incitement against doctors through media channels and means of social communication to be considered a crime punishable by law. Security sources in Baghdad have confirmed that unidentified gunmen killed a knife stabbed Iraqi doctor Shatha Faleh al-Samarrai after storming her house, adding that the gunmen also stole the contents of the house in the housing district before they fled. The incident comes two days after the assassination of Doctor Salim Abdul-Hamzah knife stabbing, where the Iraqi Medical Syndicate and the victim's relatives said that gunmen broke into his clinic in the laboratory district of the outskirts of Baghdad, and stabbed him in the chest and heart, and then transferred to the hospital and died. Al-Muthanna doctors complain of tribal persecution In Al-Muthanna province, dozens of doctors and employees of the Health Department of the province organized a protest in Al Hussein Educational Hospital in Samawa, demanding the cessation of attacks on health and nursing staff in all governorates. "The protesters called for beatings by the abusers and killers and activating the law protecting doctors No. (26) of 2013, which stipulates in Article 1 - first of it to protect doctors from attacks and tribal claims and blackmail on the results of their medical work, and come Dr. Shatha Faleh, a specialist in Al Washash primary health care center, inside her house next to Al-Iskan Educational Hospital next to Al-Karkh, The third is the doctorate R. Salim Abdul - Hamza, who had been subjected to a similar attack with knives inside his clinic factories district, east of Baghdad. " "These practices will force the specialists to migrate to preserve their lives, while the health departments seek to embrace doctors and provide all convenient ways to work within the provinces by providing adequate housing and protect them from any risks." Karbala doctors are always beating In Karbala province, dozens of doctors have demonstrated to demand a law to protect the doctor from his work. He receives murder and threats from the unruly militias and criminal gangs. "We must stop the heinous crimes and the threats we receive constantly, otherwise we will stop working. We can not work under this difficult situation we suffer every day," Dr. Mohammed Saeed said in a press statement. He added that "


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