Harama rejects charges against medical staff on sit-in
LIBYA – Shaaban Harama, an official of the Health Movement Union in Libya, has accused the government and Minister Bin Ghalbun of pursuing a policy of repression and intimidation against doctors and medical staff staging a sit-in to demand their rights, describing the charges of medical negligence and stopping work brought against them as “malicious” and aimed at frightening the protesters into dropping what he called their legitimate demands.
Complaint to the Attorney General and emergency cases
Speaking by phone to Libya Al-Ahrar, which broadcasts from Turkey and was followed by Al-Marsad, Harama said the direct complaint submitted to the Attorney General included cases that reached Tripoli Central Hospital even before the peaceful sit-in began, stressing that all emergency cases are fully exempted from the sit-in and that doctors have not abandoned their humanitarian duty.
Female doctors and nurses detained; the syndicate’s stance
He said summonses and detentions had also reached female doctors and nurses at medical complexes and clinics, amid continued refusal to grant them conditional release, while stressing that the movement respects the law and judicial investigations in all cases.
Harama criticised what he described as the Doctors’ Syndicate’s complete failure to play its role in defending those working in the sector, saying the Health Movement would continue to act as the voice of all doctors and medical staff in Libya, and that these measures would only strengthen their resolve to keep up the sit-in until the injustice is lifted and they obtain their rights.
