The Ministry of Health published, this Monday, June 30, 2025, a statement urging all resident doctors who participated in the assignment process to join their internship centers from Tuesday, July 1.
An administrative injunction which occurs while tensions between young doctors and health authorities have never been so vivid.
In the same statement, the ministry said that residents, including those in family medicine, not having taken part in the selection of assignments, are asked to continue to exercise in their current places. A way for the authorities to regain control of a situation that has been bogged down for several months.
It should be recalled that young doctors start a four -day strike from today in all public health structures.
Since 2023, several unions representing resident doctors, like the Tunisian organization of young doctors, has alerted to the degradation of working conditions in public hospitals: overload of work, lack of supervision, contractual precariousness, and low remuneration. The reform of the status of residents, however promised since 2022, is slow to see the light of day, nourishing the frustration of a generation in search of recognition.
Last May, a boycott movement of the choice of internship centers was launched, with sit-in organized in front of the ministry and in several CHUs, notably in Tunis, Sfax and Sousse. “We cannot speak of an improvement in the health system without taking into account the rights of doctors in training,” said a spokesperson for the collective “angry residents”.
