Unions representing private-sector doctors reported that their strike, which was launched this Thursday, January 21, saw an 80% participation rate nationwide, covering nearly 100% of the Moroccan territory.
The National Syndicate of Specialist Doctors in the private sector, the National Union of General Medicine in the private sector, the National Union of Free Sector Doctors, the National Association of Private Clinics, and the National Federation of Dentists and Dental Surgeons in the private sector have all participated in gathering their members for the strike.
The protesting professionals are demanding the government reviews private doctors’ contributions to the universal social security fund, which they say are “exorbitantly high and unfair.”
The union bodies said that “this strike is a result of the government ignoring their demands and not responding to correspondences that were directed to a number of government officials on the matter.”
The union bodies continued saying that they “hope that the government will evoke the sacrifices of health professionals in general, and private sector doctors among them, and that it understands that the success of any major social undertaking cannot be far from their contribution.”
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