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The emigration of doctors and nurses is one of the consequences of the deepening economic crisis and may completely eliminate Lebanon’s medical role in the region and lead to a decline in the quality of medical services, not to mention serious concerns about the low level of university education in medical schools. The head of the Doctors’ Union, Sharaf Abu Sharaf, explained that “the emigration of doctors started before the port explosion, but accelerated after it, mainly because more than 500 doctors working in the hospitals affected by the explosion ( al-Rum, Jeitawi, al-Wardya and Karantina) lost their jobs or significantly reduced their size. In addition, more than 200 clinics have been damaged, partially or totally, and most of their owners cannot complete the repair work because the banks have seized their deposits like the rest of the Lebanese. Although “there are no serious signs of foreign aid. We have informed the foreign unions and associations that contacted us that we do not need field hospitals or doctors and nurses, but that we need money to survive and continue. We get promises, but they are all part of the story. “
The port disaster was the hair that broke the camel’s back. According to Abu Sharaf, “the suffering of the doctors” started much earlier, causing many of them to lose the desire to stay. It completely got me. In some government hospitals outside of Beirut, doctors complain that some hospital administrations put their hand in medical committees and give them only what is convenient for them.
Abu Sharaf warned that “most immigrants are of very high caliber, and not just recent graduates. It will not be easy to recover the deportees or to replace them with the same experiences ”. There is a fear that “this migration will greatly affect the level of university training in medical schools, especially because it is associated with a large wave of medical students who prefer to continue their training abroad.” .
Like the doctors, the same happens with the nursing staff, which was one of the most affected by the economic crisis and the Corona pandemic, whose virus fragments infected a large number of them. The Lebanese Nurses Union, Mirna Doumit, confirmed that “nurses are emigrating en masse, at an increasing daily rate, and the number of those who emigrated has exceeded 250 in recent months, and this number is expected to increase. Those who leave stay as groups in every sense of the word, including those who leave and their families. The most dangerous thing is that the majority of those who emigrated are those with university degrees and have a long practice in the profession, that is, the elite elite. According to Doumit, “there is no reason for nurses to stay,” referring to “practices that affected the nursing corps without any regard for their sacrifices.” About 40% of male and female nurses in Lebanon have been arbitrarily dismissed from their jobs or required to sign their agreement to give up 20% of their salaries. Many of them have been working for months without any salary ”, while working conditions“ have become a real danger for them. As some hospitals give nurses two masks every 12 hours, and this is very dangerous. The number of patients the nurse is supposed to care for far exceeds world averages. The world average is 4 patients per nurse, while some hospitals assign a nurse to see more than 15 patients at times. In addition, some hospitals have evaded their obligations to nurses, even though they are on the front line to confront Corona, “despite the fact that the Ministry of Labor requested hospitals to quarantine nurses who may be infected with the virus at the expense of the hospital, some hospitals try to defraud the issue. ” A reality that will push nurses to escalation. “We would have called a general strike on August 5 and postponed it after the port exploded. However, we will go up to see if the hospitals can function without the nursing staff.
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