Babel doctors protest against risk of attack

Babel doctors protest against risk of attack


 Babylon / Iqbal Mohammed

Dozens of doctors in the province of Babylon, a protest to demand the lifting of housing levels, and increase the allocation of risk to 100%, while they called on the House of Representatives to work on legislation to protect the health professionals from attacks and violations.
The head of the Syndicate of Health Professionals in Babylon, Khaldoun al-Moussawi, told Al-Mada that "health staff in various health institutions in Babylon organized protest vigils in their health departments, including Hilla Teaching Hospital, where they stand today to demand their legitimate rights. And increase the allocation of risk amounts from 50% to 100% like their colleagues doctors because they work in the most dangerous places in addition to the issuance of the law to protect health professionals as a result of exposure to daily problems and continuing to allow them to complete their studies in the specialties in which they work and threatened to carry out strikes Mousawi If Tsamat did not respond to our demands are fair. " Al-Moussawi continued: "For the continuous communication between the Health Department of Babel and the Syndicate of Health Professions in order to support the health march forward, the Director General of Babel Health Department, Dr. Nawras Abdul Razzaq Al-Kasby met with representatives of the Health Professionals Syndicate in Babylon to discuss the latest developments regarding the protest of health and nursing staff. The most important of which is the lifting of housing and the allocation of risk. " "The Director-General has expressed his support and support to all the staff in their vigil and to consider the union as their legitimate representative to claim legitimate rights." For his part, criticized the medical assistant Haider Abdul Kadhim, "the failure of the relevant parties to meet the demands of the professions of fair health, which we have been demanding for years and did not find who hears us." "The health professionals stand in protest against injustice and marginalization to demand their legitimate rights to raise housing and give them allowances of gravity and others." He added " "Today, we demand that the Minister of Health be a lawyer for the defense of the children of health professionals and the presentation of the demands of tomorrow's meeting of the Council of Ministers," adding, "In the event of failure to respond to demands we have another word of escalation of demonstrations and sit-ins." In turn, confirmed member of the Union of Health Professionals Dina Falah, "We went out in a protest inside the educational hospital in Hilla to demand the fulfillment of our just demands, which we have been trying for years to achieve despite our eligibility and we also demand our equality with the medical staff allocations because we do similar work." The spokesman of the Iraqi Ministry of Health Sword Badr, in (8/8/2017) that the wave of assassinations of doctors are almost daily phenomenon Bader said in a press statement followed by "range", "attacks on doctors are almost daily phenomenon, while the number of attacks vary" Citing the increase in cases of abuse of medical personnel in Baghdad and the provinces to the incitement of some media and social networking sites.
According to the spokesman of the ministry, Brigadier Saad Maan, told a news conference, Saturday (12 August 2017), that security elements in charge of protecting doctors will be stationed near hospitals and medical centers in anticipation of any emergency.
He said security forces had arrested the three men, who attacked a doctor a few days ago at the Sheikh Zayed hospital in central Baghdad.
Last month, doctors in Iraq staged an open sit-in to denounce the attacks, demanding protection and the passage of the law protecting doctors.

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