The head of Parliament’s Health requests a briefing regarding the reconciliation crisis at clinics
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Health Committee, Dr. Ashraf Hatem, with a request for briefing to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chancellor Dr. Hanafi Jabali, addressed to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and Population, and the Minister of Local Development, regarding the crisis that doctors are facing in a number of governorates after issuing warnings to them and demanding that they reconcile the clinics and convert them from residential to administrative or commercial. And the threat of closing, waxing, and cutting off the facilities of these clinics.
The briefing request explained that these procedures occur in violation of Law No. 153 of 2004 regarding health facilities, which stipulates that a facility may not Medical doctors cannot practice their activities except with a license from the competent governor after registering them with the competent medical union, explaining that all clinics have been registered with the Doctors Syndicate and have also been licensed in the Free Therapy Department, which is the representative body of the governorate in licensing clinics, and no proof was requested to convert the clinic’s headquarters from residential. To administrative or commercial.
Dr. pointed out. Ashraf Hatem, stressed the need to discuss the crisis and stop these claims, in order to ensure the patient’s interest, and to ensure the continued provision of medical services in private clinics in an appropriate manner. As any increase in the cost of the clinic and its operation will necessarily entail an increase in the number of patients.
It is worth noting that a number of members of the House of Representatives submitted briefing requests and parliamentary questions to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Representatives, regarding the reconciliation crisis at doctors’ clinics, including Dr. Sarah Al-Nahhas, Dr. Irene Saeed, Dr. Rania Al-Jazairli, and Dr. Sahar Bashir.
It is noteworthy that the General Syndicate of Doctors had sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Counselor Dr. Hanafi Jabali, regarding the reconciliation crisis at doctors’ clinics.
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The union confirmed in its letter that medical clinics and other medical facilities are not subject at all to Building Law No. 119 of 2008, and that medical clinics, private hospitals and the like are subject to the Medical Facilities Law, which is the matter. On which its legal positions were established even before the issuance of the Medical Facilities Law in 1981 of 2004.
The union stressed that the decisions of the governors in this regard are considered a violation of the law and the constitution, a usurpation of authority, and an assault. On private ownership, and on legal conditions that have been stable for decades.
The General Syndicate of Doctors confirms the continuation of its efforts and the continuation of its communication with all concerned parties and officials in the state, to completely end this crisis, In order to ensure the preservation of the rights of doctors.
