The Doctors' Syndicate is planning vigils next Saturday outside hospitals across the country to mourn the death of a colleague who contracted meningitis in late October while on duty at a Ismailia hospital.
The syndicate requested that its offices hang black mourning banners for three days. It also declared another protest for November 28, when the Administrative Court will consider a syndicate lawsuit that would pressure the Health Ministry to approve an infection allowance for doctors.
The syndicate called upon the ministry to disburse a pension to the family of Dalia Mehrez, saying the doctor contracted the virus while on duty.
A medical report had confirmed that the victim had died as a result of the disease, refuting that the death was the result of an old injury from a traffic accident as claimed by the ministry.
Edited translation from Al-Masry al-Youm
