Egypt’s doctors have been on strike since 1 October. They are fighting for a raise in state spending on health, improvements in their pay and conditions and action by the government to end violent attacks on healthworkers in the workplace. Despite a massive smear campaign by the media and constant attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood…
Saturday 6 October saw hundreds of people protesting against the closure of Accident and Emergency services in four West London hospitals. Marchers heard from MENA Solidarity activists about the Egyptian doctors’ strike and sent messages of solidarity to health workers and patients in Egypt who are fighting for a better health service for all. احتج المئات…
Dear Brothers and Sisters The following doctors, health workers, and organisations express solidarity with the Egyptian Doctors Strike which happened today 1st October 2012. We support your demands for increasing the health spending to 15% of the state budget, for better security for hospital staff and patients, and a minimum wage for medical doctors of…
Egyptian Doctors voted for a national strike at a packed meeting of their union’s general assembly on 21 September. On 1 October, doctors across the country will close outpatient and non-emergency services to demand a rise in health spending to 15% of the state budget, better security for hospital staff and patients, and a minimum…
From the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions website. Original Arabic here 14 May 2012 For the third day in a row 135 temporary admin workers at Manshiet al-Bakri Hospital have been on strike and taking part in a sit-in at the hospital. The strike began on Sunday 13 May because of corruption in the…
A PDF version of the new MENA bulletin on Bahrain can be downloaded here: Bahrain Bulletin March2012 The bulletin features the latest news on the repression of trade unionists following the uprising last year, and shows how the UK government is continuing to sell arms to the Bahraini government. It also reveals how a member…
Calls for civil disobedience and a general strike on 11 February are gaining momentum across Egypt in the wake of the massacre of football supporters in Port Said. The Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions and the Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress, which between them claim a membership of around 2 million workers in affiliated unions…
English here إننا ندين هجمات الجيش المصري على المعتصمين أمام مجلس الوزراء وفي ميدان التحرير بعد 16 ديسمبر التي سببت الإصابة والموت على نطاق واسع. كالأطباء وطلاب الطب نعرب عن تضامننا مع الأطباء وطلاب الطب والعاملين في قطاع الصحة في مصر ونرسل تعازينا لعائلة وزملاء الطالب الطبي علاء عبد الهادي من جامعة عين شمس, الذي…
التجرمة العربية هنا Updated with final signatures 7 January We condemn the attacks, resulting in widespread injury and death, by the Egyptian military on protesters at the Cabinet Offices and Tahrir Square from 16th December 2011. As doctors and medical students, we express solidarity with Egyptian medical students, doctors and health workers, and give our…
From the Bahraini Justice and Development Movement: Since the ludicrous sentencing of the 20 Bahrain medics we have been asking medical workers around the world to sign this petition to the Ministry of Health, demanding that the charges be dropped. With hundreds of signatures and their re-trial set for Monday 28th November we are now…
