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The Stethoscope Revolution (Morocco) is a protest movement led by medical school students, interns, residents, and their representatives in the national coordination of medical students and the National Committee of interns and residents in Morocco, after the insistence of the Minister of Health the Pr. El Hossein El Ouardi (known as Mr.Pinky) to enforce the “Compulsory Health Service” project, which was considered “the straw that broke the camel's back”. This movement has witnessed so many escalations: vigils, National marches (the 23rd of July and the 17th of September 2015), a complete boycott to the theoretical and applied lessons in all the seven medicine and dental faculties in Morocco, plus the declaration of the interns and residents to take an open-ended strike since the 1st of October 2015. The students have also submitted to the Ministry a protest record that displays all their claims. ==The Compulsory Health Service== In the dome of the Moroccan Parliament, the Minister of Health El Hossein El Ouardi declared his intentions on setting what's called the Compulsory Health Service Law or simply the “Compulsory Service”, claiming that this law is the magical key to solve a lot of Health problems in Morocco. The Pr. Al Ouardi stated that this service would provide the population on the rural areas the health care needed, and it would also help set a fair geographical distribution regarding working doctors. Whereas the Statistics indicate that about 45% of doctors (in both the private and public sectors) are working around the axis of Rabat – Casablanca. Therefore, the ministry intends to apply this law at any cost. The entire medical system started protesting ever since the declaration of this project, in which they considered it to be a threat to their future and also wouldn't help improve the health situation in any kind of a way. In early September 2015, the Health Ministry posted on its official website the Draft article on the Compulsory Health Service Law, which stirred the students all around Morocco to start making a movement to put an end to this vague project. Especially that its articles are contradicting the international agreements that were signed previously by Morocco. In addition to that, the future of the newly graduated doctors remains unknown after spending two years of The Compulsory Service on the rural areas. The most unclear and vague point of this project is that the first article of the law considers the health service is a "national duty", while they exclude medical school students of the private newly opened medical faculty, and many other points... all these contradictions made this project exposed to criticism and controversies that did not end to the present day. 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「The Stethoscope Revolution (Morocco)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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