Damascus-SANA
More than 30,000 teachers and teachers who are on the job or retired benefit from the services provided by the Damascus Teachers Syndicate. The services vary between health, material and educational services.
Funds belonging to the union charged with providing these services are distributed between the retirement treasury fund, the end-of-service fund, the social solidarity fund, and others that are voluntarily subscribed to, such as the immediate assistance fund upon death and the housing fund.
The head of the Damascus Teachers Syndicate Ahed al-Kanj confirmed in a statement to SANA that the teacher pays 2% of his lump sum salary per month, which is divided into 1% of the end-of-service gratuity fund’s revenues, while the other 1% goes to the Social Solidarity Fund account, so that 15% of it is deducted to the Syndicate’s fund to cover its expenses, and 85 percent for the Solidarity Fund, which provides medical, treatment and surgical services to the teacher and his family according to the health book.
Al-King pointed out that there are two medical centers affiliated with the union in the Mezzeh area and on Baghdad Street, which provide medical services to the teacher, where the value of the examination by the doctor amounts to one thousand Syrian pounds for teachers and two thousand pounds for the rest of the auditors who are not teachers, in addition to contracting with insurance companies and the union pharmacy and dispensing medical prescriptions. There is a study To open a central pharmacy for the union in the Mezzeh area.
The Damascus Teachers’ Syndicate has established the Generation Builders Cooperative Housing Association, and the first partition has been received in the Al-Fayha suburb and is now in the process of building its infrastructure, according to Al-Kanj, revealing that there is a project in cooperation with Lattakia Governorate to give the union a land of 30 dunums to build chalets for teachers, like the rest of the unions in Syria.
The accountant in the Solidarity Department, Hanan Talo, indicated that the services provided by the department vary between health aid and sums allocated for medicines, operations and prescriptions. Amounts paid by the teacher that do not match the compensation he receives.
Among the union’s auditors is the retired school, Ghada Saada, who demanded an increase in the compensation value that the teacher receives for the operations he performs, explaining that she had recently performed an operation on her eye using laser technology.
Amer Deeb and Rehab Ali
