The day after a prevented march in Rabat, the Coordination of Unions in the Health Sector, which brings together eight organizations, announced a continuous strike that will last more than two weeks. In a press release, the body denounced “the repression of a peaceful gathering” marked by a “brutal” reaction from the authorities, as well as “the arrest of activists and members of health personnel”. This Thursday, July 11, and Friday, July 12, the strikers have already suspended their work.
In this context, the coordination once again criticized the non-implementation of the agreement signed with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection last January. Thus, the called strike extends over July and concerns “all hospitals, dispensaries, administrations and training centers at the national level”. The activity of emergency and resuscitation services will remain maintained.
The upcoming strike days will be from Monday to Friday (July 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, 2024), as well as the week after (July 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26). In its call for mobilization, the coordination held “the head of government and his recklessness about the health of citizens” responsible for tensions in the sector. In the event of no response to the demands of the trade union centers, they will announce another “struggle program”, that underlines the appeal.
In a press release, the Coordination declared the day before that “at a time when health personnel is awaiting the fair application of the agreement, the eight unions in the sector were surprised by the unilateral release of three government decrees, in ‘total absence of detailed data and without a participatory approach’.
The coordination points to the implementing decree of law 08.22 relating to the creation of territorial health groups, that of law 10.22 relating to the creation of the Moroccan Medicines Agency, as well as that of law 11.22 relating to the creation of the Moroccan Blood Agency and its derivatives.
