AMMAN — A video circulating on
social media for the past two days showed a verbal
altercation between public sector doctors and members of the Jordanian Medical
Association council at a scientific forum held on Friday, during which the
former were demanding fair rewards from the association.
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According to the JMA spokesman Hazem Al-Qaraleh,
doctors in the public sector claim that the bonuses for the medical sector “are
unfair”, and that they were neglected in the last amendment on bonuses for the
medical sector.
Qaraleh told
Jordan News that the
“altercation happened between two doctors only, and unlike what it showed in
the viral video, the situation settled down quickly”.
He also said that four committees were formed to
discuss the doctors’ demands with
Ministry of Health officials, “and they have
already started working and getting results”.
Among the doctors’ most prominent demands are to an
increase in professional bonuses, from the present 160 percent to 200 percent
for general practitioners, an increase in the sabbatical bonuses for doctors
from 35 percent to 70 percent, as well as separating the doctors’ incentive
fund from that of the other professions.
According to a doctor who witnessed the altercation,
and who spoke to
Jordan News on condition of anonymity, said that the
association “failed to meet the doctors’ demands, and, as a result, doctors
gave the association till Friday to get a response from the Ministry of
Health”.
“It does not make any sense that the difference
between a doctor’s basic salary and that of a nurse should be JD18. Nursing is
an honorable job, however, the whole responsibility falls on the doctors,
therefore a serious change needs to happen,” he said.
Former JMA president, Maisam Akrosh, told
Jordan
News that the current demand is for doctors to get fair bonuses, “but their
ultimate demand is to have a special system separate from that of the Civil
Service Bureau”.
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