Doctors Without Rights said in a statement Monday that it rejects the 4.8 percent share of health in the state's budget, which means that hospitals will continue to be "places for death."
The movement called upon citizens and all doctors and workers in the health sector to take part in its activities announced by the Doctors Syndicate to protest the government's continuation of the government ignoring Egyptians' right to health.
They called for organizing sit-ins outside large public hospitals and other governorates 20 and 27 May at 2 pm. It also called upon doctors to collect signatures demanding a rise in the health budget.
The statement said that the government wants Egyptians to accept hospitals as places to death instead of places for medical treatment.
The group also called on MPs to reject the new budget in solidarity and impose amendments raising the health's share of the budget and redistribute it to finance units providing health services and improving medical staff.
The group wondered if promises by presidential candidates to allocate 15 percent of the state budget to health are just “hot air of plans that will be implemented.”
“Can we believe candidates who accepted the 15 percent share while his party voted for the 4.8 percent?” it asked.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
