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Friday, October 14, 2011

Egyptian Physicians Syndicate elections to get underway Today

Doctors' Union elections are scheduled to begin Friday for the first time in 19 years. Previously had legal custody of all frozen choice of action of the union.

Doctors vote in 27 branches across the union of the countries.

Two main camps, called lists have emerged in the period preceding the elections. Doctors to the list of Egypt is mainly composed of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the group that currently dominate the board of the union. The second list, called List of Independence is made up of members of lobby group Doctors Without Rights (DWR), Tahrir Square, Doctors of the group and independent people.

Many of Independence list of doctors have been active in the protests and strikes in recent months, demanding higher salaries for doctors and hospitals in the state has increased the health of the national budget.

Twenty-three candidates are running position of the union.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the backup Khairy Abdel Dayem head of the union, although it is a member. "I get the support of the Brothers because they see that I am the best for the job," said Abdel Dayem. "I will work to make the independent union. I will not allow brothers or others to political work within the union. "

Abdel Dayem said he opposed the recent strike by doctors. " "I think the decision for doctors to strike was rushed and poorly studied. Our colleagues are required to wait after the election, and until an elected council could find solutions to their problems. I am against a general strike , "he said.

The list of Independence is not the support of a candidate, but the main rival Ghazali Harb Tareq Abdel Dayem. "[Muslim Brotherhood] wants to control the union and work through a union leader will listen to at all times. This is what they did with the previous union president, Sayed Hamdy.

"I had no support from anyone, because everyone knows that nobody can control me. I work only for medicine and doctors. I do not have ideologies, as I like to enforce on anyone. "

The independence, the candidates are standing for election is different aboard a union between the supporters of the DWR Mona Mina, and Rashwan Rashwan Shaaban.

Several controversies have arisen in the period before the vote. The polling place in Cairo has been amended three times and a member of Mohamed Shafik DWR argues that the current is not large enough to absorb about 50,000 doctors who are to vote in Cairo.

In addition, about 80 000 doctors are registered to vote. Speaking ONTV the "Masr FE Osbooa" talk show, Dr. Osama Abdel Hay, a list of supporters in Independence, said that over the last 10 years, doctors are registered in the Central Union of Doctors, but not the branch unions - ie can "vote T.

Independence from the list of supporters will say that under-registration and areas of limited voting members will benefit from the Brotherhood candidates to stick to because of the Islamic group.

But this claim was challenged by Abdel Fatah Rezq, a current member of the board of the union and a supporter of doctors to the list of Egypt during the show. He said that the 80 000 registered doctors, 35 000 are overseas and 30,000 are retired.

Rezq added that it is the duty of individual physicians to enroll themselves and the board of the Union can not encouraged to register "because he would undertake to mobilize their own supporters," referring to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Abdel Hay also accused the current board members of the union of being "in cahoots" with the old regime, he said, undermined the independence of the union and the performance by putting politics before the concerns of doctors.

Rezq rejected this claim, and asked how union members may have colluded with the former regime as "six or seven of them were tried by military courts and imprisoned."

The current union "provided health insurance for physicians and company unions established in the length and breadth of Egypt," he added.

"There is no policy in this."

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