February 17, 2020 (El-fashir) Medical staff in the Kabkabiya hospital embarked on strike Monday to protest against dismissal of two doctors by director general of Kabkabiya rural hospital.
Protesters say they will not return to work unless the general director withdraw his decision with regard to the dismissal of the workers.
Medics also demanded the need to improve the work environment and address all outstanding problems between specialized and general doctors.
One of the hospital’s doctors, Alaa Ahmed Ibrahim told Darfur 24 that they were surprised by an administrative decision taken by the hospital’s medical director, Dr. Ezzeldeen Abdullah Khater, to return two doctors to Al-Fasher, on the pretext of not cooperating in doing autopsy of a corpse of Traffic incident’s victim.
Kabkabiya hospital in North Darfur, suffers from shortages of medicine and weak qualified health personnel, in addition to the accumulation of patients.