A controversial statement made by the official spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health, Nissaf Ben Alaya, in an interview with Radio Mazayek, which was reported by foreign media and international news agencies, after she acknowledged the collapse of the health system, and the response came quickly after less than 24 hours from the ministry itself, confirming in a lengthy statement that the system had not collapsed and in Mashhad Suryali says that “the system will remain steadfast in the face of all difficulties and emergencies, thanks to the efforts of all health professionals and professionals, and also thanks to the solidarity and solidarity of society.”
Did it collapse or did it not collapse?
The Basic Syndicate of Physicians, Pharmacists and Dentists in Public Health at the University Hospital of El-Manji Salim and the Regional Hospital Khair El-Din, in turn, today, Saturday, July 10, 2021, expressed its condemnation of what it described as the malicious campaign against the Tunisian health system, denying its collapse.
The union acknowledged that the health sector is going through several difficulties and obstacles, caused by the current situation of the country and the political strife and its targeting by some lobbies and side choices and the wrong management of some officials, according to its expression.
For his part, the doctor in the emergency department of the regional hospital in Bizerte, Boulababa Makhlouf, said that since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health has activated crisis cells in each hospital, by adopting some of the internal communications it sends from time to time.
He added that the ministry requires every hospital to allocate a Covid department, convert surgical departments to units for Corona patients, or postpone non-urgent clinics, without specifying each time the medical and semi-medical framework for these departments.
He explained that for more than a year, hospitals have been working according to the human and material capabilities of each separately, noting that some hospital institutions were able to withstand and continue because of their own capabilities or the help of associations, civil society and donations, while other hospitals collapsed.
Dr. Makhlouf said that what is happening in Tunisia is a gradual collapse of the health system, because the hospitals that managed to withstand the first and second waves collapsed during this dangerous wave, so doctors became practicing disaster medicine.
