The hashtag “Doctors Not Obaid” topped the Jordanian trading lists, after a campaign launched by a number of doctors in residency programs in various Jordanian hospitals, to demand payment of salaries that would enable them to live in dignity, as they put it.
The eighth bulletin – your newsletter (4/6/2021) continued the interaction with the hashtag, as tweeters stressed that the hospitals’ refusal to pay salaries to resident doctors is a major reason for the emigration of cadres from Jordan, calling on the authorities to intervene to solve this crisis.
On a large scale, the tweeters circulated a clip of the consultant activist, Muhammad Al-Hujairi, in which he showed his solidarity with the resident doctors.
Among the interactions through the hashtag, Ahmed Al-Qaoud tweeted, “The specialist doctor follows up his patients for a period not exceeding one hour per day, while the resident doctor follows up on patients continuously and around the clock, and it is unfair that his need for the residency program is exploited to work without pay.”
While Abdullah Dalal wrote, “In order to know the extent of the tragedy: imagine that you paid your son 50-60 thousand (dinars) and he became 25 years old and he worked 80-120 hours a week, and at the end of the month he came to you, oh, give me the right to a taxi because he lives and does not have a penny!! “.
And the tweeter Abdel Rahman wrote, “Imagine your soul and health being in the hands of a person who literally earns every month a sum of money and the amount of it is (zero) dinars! By God, how will he work with a conscience? Tell the ideals of the doctor, he must have humanity, and I swear to God humanity, but humanity is hungry, you cannot dip it in bread.”
On the other hand, Omar Manasra said, “When your soul and health are tied to a sum of money, it must be in a measure of humanity. How many deaths have occurred because they do not have to pay the doctor.”