Demanding public sector employment
Medical graduates protest in Mosul over job allocations
MOSUL – Medical graduates in Mosul protested in front of the Nineveh Health Directorate on Wednesday, demanding employment in the public sector under the medical progression system without exception. The protesters claim the government violated the law by allocating only 29,000 job positions for over 57,000 graduates.
Fahad Mohammed, a pharmacy graduate, told 964media that government authorities had “promised” at the beginning of the year to employ all medical graduates in the public sector without exception.
“We came out to demand justice for all medical graduates from both public and private colleges, and starting today, we announce an open sit-in in front of the Nineveh Health Directorate until our demands are met and all graduates are employed,” Mohammed told 964media.
Mohammed Diyaa, a dental graduate, called on the health authorities to honor their promise to employ all graduates of medical schools. “We all studied and worked hard to be employed [by the government], and this decision contradicts the law,” Diyaa said.
In a related incident last May, dozens of employees from the Najaf Health Department staged a demonstration demanding two months of unpaid salaries, displaying signs with the slogan “Strike Until Payment” and the hashtag “#WhereIsTheSalary?”.
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