The quorum of the Doctors' Syndicate general assembly was complete on Friday afternoon as hundreds of doctors flocked to Dar al-Hekma building to attend the emergency assembly.
Held under "The Day of Dignity", the emergency assembly was set up to discuss several assaults by police officers on doctors at hospitals in the past few weeks, most notably the Matariya hospital incident.
Hundreds of doctors could not enter the building due to the overcrowding.
The quorum of the general assembly is 1,000 doctors of the syndicate's members.
Demanding justice for the doctors at Matariya hospital aims to prevent similar incidents by police officers in the future, said Mona Mina, Undersecretary of the Doctors' Syndicate.
"Today is the day of dignity. We are extremely keen to apply the law and to provide medical services to citizens. The syndicate's leadership has been targeted, but has been protected by the doctors who attended today," Mina added.
"We will take escalatory protest action that is not aimed against citizens," Mina said. "Doctors will make the decisions and not the syndicate's board."
"We will engage (citizens) in all our escalatory steps as we support doctors' rights to work in safe hospitals," she added.
Doctors chanted after Mina concluded her speech that "Strike is the solution".
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
