Union of specialist doctors warns against “massive exodus” of underrated doctors to private health sector

The Secretary General of the Trade Union representing specialist doctors from the public sector, Mr Mohamed Yousfi, has voiced discontent at the failure by the health ministerial department to deal seriously with the pressing concerns of the health specialists working for the public sector.

• Taking the floor during a press conference on Tuesday at the Union’s premises in central Algiers, Mr Yousfi said that the health ministry had so far turned a deaf ear to the doctors’ grievances despite a formal pledge last May to press ahead with this outstanding file.
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• He called in this connection for a speedy opening of a bona-fide dialogue between the representatives of the specialist public sector doctors and those of the relevant ministry in order to break off the current logjam in the hope of addressing the legitimate professional claims of this underrated segment of  doctors whose number exceeds two thousand scattered across the country’s university hospitals and various health centers.
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• A stalemate in this burning issue, Mr Yousfi warned, will prompt these disillusioned specialist doctors, who enjoy a long experience garnered in the public health sector, to join the thriving private health sector thus penalizing as a result the ordinary citizens who usually seek low-cost medical care at health facilities  belonging to the public sector, he said.
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