Resident Doctors Consider Resuming Strike After Ramadan

Independent Bloc of Resident Doctors postponed deciding on resuming protest to the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, which sees high pressure in the emergency services.

Spokesman for the bloc, Redouane Ben Amar told reporters that the resident doctors may resume their protest movement as by the beginning of the new academic year, in September, to force the authorities meeting their promises,  on the top of which cancelling the compulsory civil service in the Sahara areas.

Mr Redouane said the bloc is also upset towards the non attribution of frozen wages of resident doctors serving in hospitals in Setif and Tizi Ouzou provinces, although they resumed work. 

Yet, some medicine departments have announced the schedule of the final exams, without giving the chance for students to offset lessons lost to the strike.  

But the head of rectors of medicine institutes, Professor Aradha, reassured that all the lost 7 weeks studies are going to be offset before the final exam for entering medicine speciality, scheduled initially by the Minister of Higher Education for 9 and 10 October. 

However, Mr Ben Amar has called on the Ministry of Higher Education to announce the 2010-2011 academic year as empty for all, in order to offer a second chance for resident doctors whom studies were interrupted by the series of strikes and protests.