The death of a young doctor in a damaged automated elevator. A new catastrophe in the health sector ignites feelings of anger and sadness in Tunisia and calls for the resignation of the Minister of Health (video)

Tunisia – (dpa): feelings of anger and sadness prevailed in Tunisia on Friday after a tragic accident that killed a young doctor in a damaged automatic elevator, in a tragedy that added to a series of neglect-related disasters .

The Tunisians realized the tragedy that occurred at the hospital in Jendouba, in the north-west of the country, when the young surgeon, Badr al-Din Al-Alawi, used an automatic lift, but dropped it to the bottom without realize it was damaged.

According to hospital staff, the elevator has been damaged for years. This has increased the anger of large sections of Tunisians who have insulted the government and officials on social media.

“It’s the country that kills its children,” the young doctor Ahmed Al-Gharayri wrote on his Facebook page.

Medical students and young doctors carried out a national strike in the country’s hospitals on Friday. The Tunisian Association of Young Doctors has asked for the dismissal of the Minister of Health, the director of the hospital and the regional director of health, accused of negligent homicide.

This is the latest catastrophe in Tunisia’s crumbling public health sector following the infant mortality disaster at the capital’s children’s hospital in March 2019 due to a bacterial infection.

To date, investigations into the disaster have not yielded clear results or judicial convictions.

Faced with the high cost of private clinics, the public health sector has turned into a real nightmare for the low-income class in Tunisia due to low services and a shortage of equipment and specialist doctors in light of the migration of a large number of them to European countries and the Arab states of the Gulf.

“The death of martyr Badr Al-Din Al-Alawi reflects the tragedy faced by health professionals, who have become victims of neglect and misconduct in some hospitals,” Prime Minister Hisham Al-Mishishi said while expressing his condolences. at the victim’s home in Kasserine.

The funeral of the martyr of duty #Badr_Din_Alawi We belong to God and to Him we will return pic.twitter.com/2F8ilHlDqy

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“We are in a homeland or in a cemetery,” Munji Rahwi, a member of the Jendouba parliament, said in his speech at a plenary session. One of the strangest phenomena that Tunisia is experiencing. The choices made by the various governments in ten years do not reflect the desire for reform.

“What is happening is that the private sector is replacing the public health sector. This option has begun to bear fruit and the result is that public hospitals have turned into massacres.

The incident multiplied the wave of neglect frustration in the country after a series of fatal accidents without the authority having decisions to resolve the dilemmas behind it.

A few weeks ago, the death of a girl in an exposed sewer sparked outrage against municipal authorities, the second in a month.

A year ago, more than forty young people died in a road accident on a bus on a slope with no safety factors, and agricultural workers died stacked on an open truck in a road accident not the first of its kind.

Tunisia is seeing protests in several states calling for development, employment and improvement of working conditions just days before the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution that preceded the Arab Spring revolutions.