Details of the emergency meeting of the Medical Syndicate Council and its branches to discuss the reconciliation crisis over clinics
The General Syndicate of Physicians Council was held under the chairmanship of the General Syndicate, Dr. Osama Abdel-Hay held an emergency meeting today, Friday, with the sub-union councils, to discuss the crisis of reconciliation over clinics and converting them from residential to administrative, and to consult on the procedures and steps that must be taken to end the crisis and preserve the rights of doctors.
Members of the General Union Council, branch captains and members of the branch councils of unions from all over the Republic participated in the meeting, which lasted for more than 4 hours.
The participants in the meeting affirmed their complete and categorical rejection of the doctors’ demand for reconciliation over their clinics, which are licensed in accordance with the Medical Facilities Law and have obtained a license from the competent governor.
The participants also stressed their denunciation and complete rejection of the arbitrary and illegal practices on the part of some neighborhoods in closing and barricading a number of doctors’ clinics in various governorates.
The participants in the meeting pointed out that doctors are subject to the Medical Facilities Law No. 51 of 1981, amended by Law No. 153 of 2004 regarding the organization and licensing of medical facilities, which explicitly stipulates in its second article that it is not permissible for a medical facility to practice its activity except with a license from the competent governor after registering it in the Medical Syndicate. Competent.
The participants in the meeting stated that with the government’s repeated affirmation of its keenness to encourage the private sector to invest in the health sector, and considering it an essential partner for the government and private sectors in providing medical services, we were expecting a package of incentives and encouraging measures for doctors and their medical facilities, but we were surprised by a set of arbitrary measures against clinics. Private companies, considering that these procedures that have no basis in law may push many to close their clinics and thus increase pressure on government hospitals.
The meeting ended with a number of recommendations, which were as follows:
1. Authorizing the General Syndicate to form a delegation from the General Syndicate and the branch syndicates to hold an urgent meeting with the Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, to demand the immediate cessation of the arbitrary measures that have been taken by local authorities in a number of governorates towards doctors’ clinics, which include closing and waxing a number of these clinics. And threatening to cut off her facilities.
2. Requesting the Prime Minister to give clear instructions to the governors to stop asking doctors who are licensed according to the correct law to reconcile in their clinics.
3. Addressing doctors who are members of the House of Representatives in various governorates, and members of the Health Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate, using their oversight tools and submitting urgent briefing requests to stop arbitrary measures against private doctors’ clinics.
4. Addressing the Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, head of the Central Administration for Non-Governmental Treatment Institutions and Licensing, to confirm the legal status of licensed doctors’ clinics, which are subject to periodic supervision for free treatment.
5. Assigning the legal team of the Medical Syndicate to file an urgent lawsuit, to confirm the validity of the legal positions that private clinics have acquired with their licenses, in accordance with the rulings of the Court of Cassation, and to confirm that these clinics are not subject to the Building Violations Reconciliation Law No. 187 of 2023.
6. Appealing to all affected doctors whose clinics have been closed and suspended, or who have received warnings that facilities will be cut off, to communicate with their sub-unions and issue a power of attorney to the legal team of the sub-union and the general union, to invalidate and cancel these measures.
7. The General Syndicate of Doctors Council and the sub-union councils are in permanent session, to follow the developments of this crisis, discuss its developments, and take all necessary measures to preserve the rights of doctors.
