It escalated Parliament movements During the last days, the government was asked to develop a comprehensive vision to solve several urgent social and economic issues, including assigning graduates of medical colleges, reducing the phenomenon of illegal immigration among young people, and raising the value of pensions to confront inflation.
The parliamentary demands came through briefing requests and urgent questions addressed to the Prime Minister and the Ministers of Health, Higher Education, and Financial Solidarity, within the framework of the representatives’ keenness to protect the rights of young people and the most vulnerable groups, and to ensure the stability of the health and social system in the country.
Crisis in hiring graduates of medical colleges
Dr. Muhammad Al-Salhi, a member of the House of Representatives, submitted an urgent statement to Counselor Hisham Badawi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, calling on the government to solve the crisis of assigning graduates of medical colleges in the specializations of human medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, physical therapy, nursing, and other medical and health specializations.
Al-Salhi pointed out that the graduates are elite students who have worked hard for many years and whose families have borne great financial burdens, expecting that graduation will be the beginning of a stable professional path that serves the nation. But he stressed that the ambiguity of hiring policies and the lack of clarity in hiring plans threatens to cause large numbers of people to join the unemployment queue, especially in light of a clear deficit in the health system in specialties and remote areas.
Practical proposals for assignment
Al-Salhi presented 5 proposals to speed up assignment and appointment:
Issuing a binding government decision to assign annual assignments to all graduates without distinction between universities.
Preparing a national map of health needs and linking the commissioning movement to it.
Expanding the umbrella of appointment to include university hospitals, Ministry of Health hospitals, health insurance, health care, veterinary units, primary care centers and border areas.
Activating a system of incentives for remote areas (financial, administrative housing, priority in postgraduate studies).
Establish a central electronic platform for commissioning and distribution to ensure transparency and fairness according to the total, desires, and actual needs.
Al-Salhi also called for developing new policies for admission to medical colleges, including linking the numbers of those accepted to the needs of the labor market over the next 5-10 years, and obliging private and private universities to have a national coordination plan, while introducing ability tests and personal interviews to measure professional and humanitarian readiness.
The phenomenon of illegal immigration
Representative Ahmed Essam El-Din Hussein, head of the parliamentary body of the Congress Party, touched on illegal immigration among Egyptian youth, stressing that it represents a threat to the lives of young people who risk their lives in search of stable job opportunities.
Essam pointed out that the parliamentary question focused on:
Actual measures to combat illegal immigration.
Addressing economic, social and educational reasons, such as limited job opportunities and weak linkage between education and the labor market.
Supporting young people in establishing small and medium enterprises.
Coordination between ministries to develop a comprehensive and sustainable vision.
He stressed that linking education to the labor market and providing suitable job opportunities is the best way to reduce migration and protect the future of young people.
The pension file: raising the value and confronting inflation
Representative Amir Ahmed Al-Gazzar, a member of the House of Representatives from the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, addressed the pension file, presenting an urgent question to the government about the strategy of raising pensions in line with inflation rates and current economic conditions.
Al-Jazzar explained that pensions represent an inherent right guaranteed by the Constitution and the law, but they have become insufficient to confront the successive rise in prices, which has led to the erosion of the purchasing power of thousands of citizens, especially those who depend on the pension as their sole source of income.
Al-Gazzar called on the government to answer key questions, including:
The government’s plan to ensure the preservation of the purchasing power of pensions.
Mechanisms for linking pensions to economic variables.
Measures to prevent pensioners from bearing the cost of economic reforms alone.
Setting a timetable to review policies for periodic increases to achieve social justice.
