For several weeks, young Tunisian doctors have been angry. Faced with overload in services, degraded working conditions, the delay in assignments and the precariousness of their status, they multiplied the calls for dialogue, sometimes in the indifference of the institutions concerned. The discontent ended up increasing, with demonstrations, strikes and increasing media coverage.
However, as often, as often, an intervention by the President of the Republic so that the dossier has a decisive advance. After a meeting at the Palais de Carthage with the Minister of Health, the head of state Kais Saied expressed his understanding towards the legitimate demands of young practitioners, in a approach to strengthening the health sector.
In the process, the ministry concerned hastened to announce an urgent meeting with the organization of young doctors in the presence of representatives of the order of doctors. A decision that led to the suspension, this Thursday, July 3, 2025, of the announced strike.
A positive outcome therefore, but which questions the functioning of the state. Should we now wait for a presidential validation for each sectoral conflict?
Young doctors welcome the commitments obtained, but remain vigilant. Because promises, in the health sector as elsewhere, have often been made without tomorrow.
Several of them recall that the crisis is not only material: it is also moral. It is a feeling of abandonment, injustice, and lack of prospects that lives a large part of this generation in white coat.
