Dr. Kawthar Mahmoud, head of the Nursing Syndicate and a member of the Senate, thanked President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for agreeing to include the specialties of nursing, dentistry and physical therapy in the previous decision to raise the remuneration for internship doctors, which is paid to them during the training period in the internship year.
In a statement today, she indicated that President El-Sisi He is keen to invest in manpower, as he sponsored the nursing excellence and equating them with other medical specialties, pointing out that the health system is an integrated team and is not limited to a particular category.
Dr. Kawthar Mahmoud added that the nursing staff performs about 70% of the medical services provided in health facilities, pointing out that the president’s decision will contribute to the state’s plan to eliminate the nursing deficit, and even motivate students to enroll in nursing colleges, which is an incentive to attract students to join the profession. .
She said that Dr. Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance, was keen to inform the union of the president’s decision personally, and continued: “I received a phone call from Dr. Mohamed Maait immediately after his meeting with the president to inform me of the president’s approval to raise the excellence award for nursing students, which was one of the union’s demands for many years, advanced I would like to thank him for his efforts in this matter.”
She added that a discussion was held with the Minister of Finance, the incentive of 13% of the basic wage, with a minimum of 100 pounds, for those who are addressed by special laws such as Law 14 on regulating incentives for medical professions, in addition to an additional incentive starting from 175 pounds to 400 pounds according to the job grade, pointing out that it will be conducted Activating these incentives, concession incentives, and incentives for health sector workers for the new fiscal year, July 2022.
I also thanked Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the acting Minister of Health and Population, for his interest in the nursing excellence award file, which includes holders of Bachelor of Nursing and Technical Institutes and equating them with the excellence award for doctors, pointing out that the Ministry of Higher Education has made great strides in this file and has ended From all procedures and submitted to the Ministry of Finance.
The head of the Nursing Syndicate said that the Syndicate aspires to interest President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in developing technical education for nursing in Egypt, pointing out that it may be a source of national income, by sending nursing staff abroad after the state is satisfied with competencies, noting that a country like the Philippines is dispatching about 10 Thousands of nurses around the world, which has become one of the sources of national income and hard currency for the Philippines.
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