The High Commission for the Doctors' Strike said that thousands of doctors in public hospitals are starting a partial strike on Wednesday, following the general assembly resolution of the Doctors Syndicate.
Syndicate member Dr. Amr al-Shoury said 85 percent of the doctors have participated in the strike nationwide, with 100 percent in Suez, 95 percent in Port Said, 80 percent in Luxor, and 90 percent in Dakahlia.
He said Giza measured 100 percent in the Imbaba Public Hospital, the Imbaba Ophthalmology Hospital, the Hawamdeya Hospital, the Badrasheen Chest Hospital and the Warraq Hospital.
The strike was 100 percent in Manshiyat al-Bakry Hospital in Cairo, 100 percent in the Ahrar Hospital in Sharqiya and 100 percent in hospitals of Dakahlia, Port Said, Alexandria, Qalyubiyah and Gharbiya, he said.
Dr. Ahmed Farouk, chairman of the Pharmacies Commission, said the strike is for the benefit of patients and not for any factional demands, adding that pharmacists are also staging strikes in 90 percent of public hospitals and 75 percent of private pharmacies.
Dr. Mohamed Seoudi, undersecretary of the Pharmacists Syndicate, said owners of a famous chain of pharmacies were referred to a disciplinary committee for violating the general assembly resolution, adding that the director of the Boulaq General Hospitals instructed the nurses to give medicines to patients and ignore the strike.
Syndicate member Dr. Ahmed Ebeid said the pharmacists of the Mahalla General Hospital filed complaints with the police against the hospital director for forcing them to work.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
