Hundreds of medics protested in Tunisia on Friday after a young doctor died in a hospital elevator accident in the country’s northwest.
Badreddedine Aloui, 27, plunged to his death Thursday down an elevator shaft after the lift doors opened but with no elevator in place, witnesses interviewed by local media said.
The elevator, in a hospital in the marginalised Jendouba region, had allegedly remained in service despite a long-reported fault.
Hundreds of doctors, health workers and medical students gathered in front of the health ministry in the capital Tunis on Friday, demanding the health minister and other officials be sacked, an AFP correspondent reported.
The hospital has been visited by two government ministers over the past months, including Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi in October.
After general strikes in Beja and Kairouan, Tunisia’s young doctors are on strike today – protesting the death of a 26-year old colleague who fell into a broken elevator shaft while on duty, highlighting the broken public health infrastructure @liliagaida https://t.co/W6uAuwjuxC
— katharina grüneisl (@katharinagrneis) December 4, 2020
“A young doctor has died as a result of this negligence,” said Zied Bouguerra, a member of the Tunisian Organisation of Young Doctors.
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Source: IOL
