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…
Dr Mohammed Shafiq, President of the Independent Union of Workers in Manshiet al-Bakry General Hospital, talks about the struggle of health workers to build independent unions and bring about a revolution in Egypt’s health system. The union was founded in the wake of Mubarak’s overthrow and led a revolution of its own within the hospital,…
Global medical professionals demand immediate dropping of all charges against Bahraini medics Twenty medical professionals in Bahrain have been given prison sentences of five to fifteen years in jail by military court, for helping those wounded by the regime. According to Physicians for Human Rights, there is “hard evidence of systematic and co-ordinated attacks against…
Update: 25 September – hundreds of health technicians protest outside parliament Health professionals and technical staff represented by the Egyptian Health Technologists Syndicate will join a strike from 25 September, after six months of fruitless negotiations over their demands the union said in a statement on 24 September. The union is fighting for better pay…
Independent unions at six hospitals have taken their first steps towards regular co-ordination. Representatives from Manshiyet al-Bakri Hospital, Al-Du’aa Hospital, Al-Zawiya al-Hamra Hospital, Al-Abbasiyya Mental Health Hospital, Al-Munira Hospital and Al-Haram Hospital issued a statement on 9 August pledging to meet regularly in order to build the independent unions across the health sector. They will…
A series of hospital strikes gripped Aleppo late in July, following the arrest of one doctor at a hospital in the city. The strikes started with 100 resident doctors going on strike at El-Razi hospital in Aleppo on 26 July, after their colleague, dentist Ayman Henawy, was arrested by security forces at the hospital. Aleppo…
By Simon Midgley, CWU Bradford & District, and Huddersfield SWP. This report is part of a series of articles by members of the MENA Solidarity Network delegation which visited Egypt 28 April – 3 May On the afternoon of Friday 29th April, our delegation had the pleasure of visiting the offices that the Egyptian Independent…
Solidarity action co-ordinated by Canadian doctors and health workers – Support the doctors’ march to Tahrir Square, 10 June The Egyptian health-care system only receives 3.5 per cent of GDP. Doctors work under state-controlled unions led by corrupt officials with ties to the Mubarak regime, which have prevented them from advocating for better health care…
Doctors marched through the streets of Cairo on Sunday 29 May, demanding the resignation of the Minister of Health, in a protest called to keep the pressure on the government following their national strike on 17 May. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlI8l2dgYy0 The Doctors’ Higher Strike Committee met with representatives of the regional strike committees and issued a statement…
This is a translation and adaption of an article by Mohamed Shafiq, member of the Higher Strike Committee of the Doctors’ Strike published a few days before the 17 May doctors’ strike. Original article here: http://www.e-socialists.net/node/6900 Send messages of support to the doctors’ strike here: atebaa@Gmail.com atebaa_bela_hokook@yahoo.com Mohamed Shafiq This article summarizes the views of…
MENA Solidarity Network 