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Manshiet el Bakry Hospital near the Heliopolis district of Cairo, is a community hospital with a staff of 400 full and part-time doctors. After the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011, workers at the hospital formed an independent trade union open to doctors, nurses, clerks and all other hospital personnel. They voted out the old hospital management and elected Dr. Milad Ismail as head administrator.〔Reese Erlich, “Workers and Women Fight for Their Share of Egypt’s Revolution,” TruthDig.org, June 6, 2011 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/workers_and_women_fight_for_their_share_of_egypts_revolution_20110605/〕 ==Conditions at hospital== Workers expressed anger over a number of issues, including the lack of police protection at the hospital and a severe shortage of supplies. Doctors had to ask patients to buy their own drugs and medical supplies at pharmacies because so little of the national health budget reached the local hospitals. Workers at Manshiet el Bakry participated in three national doctors’ strikes in May 2011. The doctors’ professional association (syndicate) demanded increased pay for doctors and nurses, sharp increases in for hospital budgets and the resignation of the national Health Minister. An estimated 80% of Egypt’s doctors participated in the strikes, according to the Daily News Egypt. 〔Tamim Elyan, “Doctors demand resignation of health minister,” Daily News Egypt, May 29, 2011. http://thedailynewsegypt.com/human-a-civil-rights/doctors-demand-resignation-of-health-minister.html〕 Samar Ahmed, an emergency room doctor, told Ahram Online that doctors’ wages were so low, they sometimes worked four jobs just to survive. “But then we are so exhausted, we are only working with half energy and half concentration,” Ahmed said. “I mean, does it make sense that a doctor earns 100 Egyptian Pounds (US $15) and an accountant gets 5000 Egyptian Pounds (US $833)?”〔Yasmine Fathim, “Egyptian doctors hold first nationwide strike,” Ahram Online, May 10, 2011. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/11842.aspx〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manshiet el Bakry Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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