About 720 graduate medical doctors will not be assigned as a physician until investigations on them are concluded.
Turkey’s Ministry of Health has announced the withholding of the assignment process, drawing much criticism from opposition parties, according to Birgun daily.
The governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been accused of “violating the Turkish Constitution and inequality before the public and right to enter public service,” the main opposition Murat Emir, the MP for the Republican People’s Party (CHP) lashed out.
The Minister of Health, Fahrettin Koca, announced that a total of 720 graduate doctors have not been appointed due to outstanding security checks and archive research. The decree-law was introduced under the State of Emergency.
In his parliamentary question on 11 September last year, Emir asked how many doctors have not been appointed in the 82nd Public Service Obligation draw.
“The Security Investigation and Evaluation Commission of the Ministry is still investigating those not appointed yet. After the investigation is completed, these doctors will be appointed,” he said.
Emir criticised Koca’s answer by saying “criminal records” are enough in the appointment of doctors, according to a presidential decree.
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“There is no need for security investigations and archive research. A doctor not appointed has a right to know any reason for an investigation on them. Doctors who have were interrogated still do not know any reasons on why they are not awarded civil service,” the CHP MP said.
Emir pointed out that Turkey is experiencing a shortage of doctors, but the AKP’s excuse of not appointing doctors was a bid to victimise both doctors and patients. The principle of equality before the public and the right to enter public service in the Constitution are all violated.
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Vedat Bulut, president of the Ankara Medical Chamber said the security investigation has ignored the “presumption of innocence” and the Law no. 1219 of the “implementation of medical professions.”
“Whoever checks the court files, they can see the arbitrariness of the investigations. There were different security spies who kept an eye on doctors. The spying activities on doctors show how government victimises these innocent young doctors through blacklisting them,” Bulut said while lambasting this move.
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