The Minister for Health, Ali Al-Zanati, discussed in a meeting with the Chairman of the Health Committee of the House of Representatives (HoR), Nasr Al-Din Muhanna, on June 5, putting into action the decision to increase the salaries of medical personnel, following the threat by the General Syndicate of Doctors to activate a partial strike, due to begin from Sunday, June 6.

The Ministry said that the meeting witnessed an exchange of views and opinions on various issues of importance, which are due to be discussed at a further meeting of officials from the Ministry of Health and the Health Committee of the HoR in the coming days.

It explained that both parties expressed the relevance of putting a number of decisions into action relating to the health sector, foremost of which should be the decision to raise the salaries of medical and paramedical personnel in the country.

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