Cabinet meeting on specialty medicine and pharmaceutical industry
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Friday chaired a cabinet meeting which looked at means to finish off generalisation of specialty medicine nationwide and develop the national pharmaceutical industry, according to the objectives set by the Head of State’s electoral platform.
The cabinet reviewed progresses achieved in matters of generalisation of specialty medicine, notably in the priority zones. In this regard, the President of the Republic ordered the following measures:
- Open up more annual posts for associate professors and university-hospital assistants, as of 2010.
- Raise the annual recruitment of specialist doctors to 150, starting from the 2011 budget, compared with 100 currently, by earmarking these additional posts for the priority zones.
- Increase the number of opened posts in the residency examination to 550, compared with 500 currently, in order to reinforce training, notably for such specialties as anaesthesia, intensive care, gynecology and obstetrics and medical imaging.
- Consolidate and develop the experience of sponsorship of hospital wards in priority zones’ regional hospitals by related services in higher-education hospitals, by endeavouring to better organise them through establishment of partnership agreements to this end.
- Strive to create teaching hospital services in regional hospitals of priority zones.
- Encourage investment in the private medical sector in the priority zones.
- Energise the system of specialist doctors’ appointment in priority zones. (TAP)
