The government is committed to implementing all pledges to end the medical students crisis

Mustafa Paytas, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of relations with Parliament and the official spokesman for the government, said that the latter is still keeping its promise to implement the proposals it presented to end the crisis that the faculties of medicine, pharmacy and dentistry have been experiencing for months, due to students boycotting studies and exams.

Paytas confirmed, during the weekly press conference following the weekly government council meeting, that “everything the government has pledged is still committed to,” noting that “the competent authorities will soon announce the dates on which the exams will be held.”

The government had made a presentation to students of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, in which it proposed making the seventh year optional, after it had decided to reduce the years of study from seven years to six years, which the students rejected.

The proposal presented by the government, after the meeting held by the Prime Minister with the deans of colleges, to make the seventh year optional, was not welcomed by students in the faculties of medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, as they “voted” against it.

On the other hand, the official government spokesman avoided talking about the high prices of sacrifices, saying only, in response to a question put to him in this regard, that “the government attaches great importance to this issue.”

He added that, in terms of the health aspect, the government has made “a great effort to keep up with the national herd, which indicators confirm is in good health, and it has also prepared the markets to facilitate the process of purchasing sacrificial animals.”

Regarding the incident of a student’s suicide in the city of Safi due to baccalaureate exams, Paytas said, “The Ministry of National Education, Primary Education and Sports has put in place a package of measures so that the exams can pass in the best conditions.”