Bahrain Mirror: Bahraini doctors who have been unemployed for two years said that "the Ministry of Health closed the door of opportunity in the face of about 50 doctors to be hired in the ministry and instead of employing them, it called them to sign temporary training contracts for 5 years under the condition that they undergo annually during this period the Arab Board Exams and have to pass them or there will be no guarantees to be hired after five years."

The unemployed doctors refused the Health Ministry's latest decision that calls for separating training from employment and hiring doctors with temporary contracts. "The ministry did not keep its promises. After we fulfilled the necessary employment requirements according to the standards of the Ministry of Health since 2013, we kept waiting for employment for two years. Unusually, the ministry delayed the announcement of the vacancies. After it used to announce them

less than three months following the end of the training process, it announced them after almost a year without specifying the number of vacancies as it did before. The doctors were requested to sit for entrance examination and interviews in September 2014, while 27 doctors were announced to be accepted only five month earlier," further stated the doctors according to the Al-Wasat newspaper.

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