HIBAPRESS-Taorirt
The regional office of the Independent Union of Public Sector Doctors in Taorirt has sounded the alarm regarding the situation at the provincial hospital, warning of the repercussions of a severe shortage of medical human resources and its impact on the quality of health services and the right of the region's residents to treatment and hospitalization.
The office explained, in a statement issued on October 12, 2026, that the hospital suffers from a shortage in several vital medical specialties, including intensive care and anesthesia, urology surgery, vascular surgery, neurosurgery and brain surgery, dermatology, and psychiatry. It indicated that the hospital currently lacks doctors in some of these specialties.
The statement noted that the situation has worsened, according to the union, following the transfer of specialist doctors outside the region, which the office considered to have occurred outside the legal framework and without adhering to the established procedures and regulations. It also highlighted the failure to include new positions for the hospital in the allocation for the appointment of new specialist doctors for the year 2026, except to replace transferred doctors, as stated in the document.
The union warned of the repercussions of this shortage on the functioning of the health facility, pointing out that the surgical complex and the intensive care unit have been completely out of operation for three months, in addition to the inability of surgeons to perform surgical operations, including emergency cases, according to the statement. It also drew attention to the necessity for some patients to travel to distant hospitals, which imposes additional financial and moral burdens on them and raises concerns about their health and safety.
In response to this situation, the regional office held the Ministry of Health and Social Protection responsible for the continuation of the crisis and its potential repercussions on the health and safety of citizens. It called for urgent intervention to provide specialist doctors in the specialties facing shortages and to reactivate the surgical complex and the intensive care unit without delay.
It also called for clarification on the reasons for not including new positions for the hospital in the recent appointments, ensuring a fair distribution of specialist doctors across the region's hospitals, and reviewing the transfers, which the statement described as having been carried out outside the legal framework, with a serious and transparent investigation and the assignment of responsibilities.
The regional office affirmed its determination to continue following up on the issue and taking legitimate and legal steps to defend the public health facility and citizens' right to treatment, calling on doctors to unite and mobilize to defend their professional rights and the region's residents' right to decent health services.
This statement brings to the forefront the state of health services in the Taorirt region, in light of demands to strengthen human resources and medical specialties and ensure the continuity of hospital services, so as to meet the needs of the population and reduce the necessity for patients to travel outside the region in search of treatment.
