Ankara-Sana
The Turkish Ministry of Health is facing a crisis in the number of medical teams, after the dismissal of thousands of doctors and health workers on alleged charges such as being linked to the Gulen movement, and the effects of the crisis appeared with the increasing outbreak of the Corona epidemic, which necessitated the summoning of retirees to fill the deficit.
The Turkish newspaper Zaman stated that as a result of the widespread spread of the epidemic in the country and the deprivation of leave and resignation rights for health care workers tired of the increasing workload, the Turkish Ministry of Health had to call retired doctors to meet the needs of the required employees in the absence of qualified doctors due to their dismissal from their work on illegal charges and pretexts. After the 2016 coup attempt.
The Ministry published an announcement to re-employ doctors and specialists between the ages of 65-72 years who had previously worked in the ministry or its affiliated companies.
It is noteworthy that there are 20,000 health care workers who were dismissed during the two-year state of emergency in Turkey following the July 2016 coup, and although most of them were acquitted, they did not return to their jobs.
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