“The desire to volunteer in Gaza and the refusal to work on the side” brings criticism to doctors

The news inspired a group of doctors and health professionals, during The protest organized by the “Doctors for Palestine” coordination Last weekend, in front of Parliament, they expressed their willingness to volunteer in Gaza to provide their health and humanitarian services to the residents who are suffering under Israeli bombing and a critic of the doctors’ willingness to travel voluntarily in Palestine.

Some social media users accused the doctors of “pleading” by volunteering in the Gaza Strip, criticizing their willingness to work outside the country While they continue to refuse to work in remote areas of Morocco because of “the distance from the center and the clinics,” said one critic who emphasizes the priority of work voluntarily in those areas that have recently seen torrents and floods, causing material and human losses. , such as Tata area.

Commenting on this, Abu Bakr Angir, President of the Amazigh League for Human Rights, said, “These requests raised by a group of Moroccan doctors are intended to be a media show and join the slogans that are being singing in the media channels, especially the Eastern ones.”

The aforementioned human rights activist, in a statement to the Hespress electronic newspaper, said that “human solidarity is necessary and a noble cause; However, when you see thousands of Moroccan villages deprived of health services and when you see a group of medical workers refusing to work in remote areas, we are surprised that some people are free -voluntarily outside the country while the others refuse to work for the benefit of the oppressed and poor Moroccan citizens whose conditions are not covered by the international media. “

The same narrator explained that “these calls are like those who perform Hajj many times for the sake of Paradise and reward, and their neighbors and even their families are in a bad condition of life and in dire need of help,” affirming at the same time. “The calls of some doctors to volunteer outside the country show a great alienation and extreme frustration regarding “The country and the people of Morocco deserve their services and help.”

The head of the Amazigh League for Human Rights said that “the medical profession is one of the noble and noble professions necessary in society, and Moroccan doctors have always been an example of sacrifice and loyalty to human values.” But groups have introduced this role, like others, that have defied the Hippocratic oath and have become uniquely concerned with the interests of the country or the poor, especially in the rural world. .

In this regard, Unger continued: “Between a group that has enriched itself at the expense of the pockets of patients in private clinics and another group that wants to go to Gaza and Beirut and refuses to provide services to poor, poor citizens Moroccan, medicine. lost and some doctors are accused of discrimination in providing medical aid at the expense of ideology and religious and political affiliations.”

This is a statement that is completely rejected by Professor Ahmed Balhous, the national coordinator of the Moroccan coordination “Doctors for Palestine”, who said that “the name of the coordination reflects its objectives regarding maintaining acts of solidarity with Palestine; This in no way means that its members are not involved in health and medical associations that have provided a range of health and humanitarian services to several remote areas of Morocco.”

Balhous said that “organizing a medical convoy to the areas affected by the recent floods first some administrative procedures,” stressing at the same time that “all the male and female doctors who participated in a protest last Sunday fully ready to offer their services and intervene in these areas,” indicating “All the human capacities in the coordination of Doctors for Palestine in Moroccan are available to reduce the severity of these disasters and crises, especially in terms of health.”

The same speaker confirmed that “the position that the coordination has organized does not at all mean a lack of concern for remote areas or the disasters that happen to them; We are ready to go to any region and region in Morocco, and we participated with all responsibility in health and medical assistance during the Al Haouz earthquake disaster and the affected areas ,” he explained, explaining that “there is an important number of coordinating members. also active members in several associations that provided health services in several sectors.”

The national coordinator of the Moroccan coordination “Doctors for Palestine” confirmed that “the goal of the coordination is clear; Therefore, things must not be mixed, and coordination cannot be asked more than the goals for which it was established or the role of the government to undertake, because it must take care of these victims on many levels and aspects, not just health-wise.”