Rabat – Dentistry students in Casablanca have decided to stop their hospital training from March 10 for two weeks in response to what they call the city’s dental treatment center.
Your protest follows Months of the attempts to achieve solutions through the dialogue, of which they say they have only led to delays and temporary measures.
In an explanation, the students expressed frustration about a severe lack of medical care and equipment, some of which expired.
They believe that this situation threatens both their training and the quality of the patients who receive patients.
The pupils also argue that the lack of essential materials in combination with deteriorating conditions in Casablanca Dental Consultation and Treaty Center made it increasingly difficult to ensure adequate care and to gain the necessary experience for their profession.
“We exhausted all peaceful means to hear our voices, but the administration continues to ignore our concerns,” said the representatives of the students. “We can’t get up while our training environment deteriorates.”
In addition to the lack of equipment, the students indicate broader concerns about the challenges that they and their patients face every day.
They warn that the situation, if it remains, undermout public trust in the health system and damage the call of future tooth experts that have been trained under such conditions.
In order to push for change, the students planned a protest on March 12th at 11 a.m. in the tooth center. They have also made it clear that if they do not act, the authorities escalate their answer.
“We will not compromise on our rights or our dignity,” she said, askeding to take responsibility and find real solutions as temporary corrections.
This is not the first time that university students have organized in Morocco in protest. A current example is medical students who have boycotted since December 2023 classes, training and exams due to concerns about the quality of their training.
After the government had decided to shorten medical training by one year, their frustration grew a step that triggered criticism and caused fear of decreasing standards. Overcrowded classrooms and hospitals, uncertainties about the restructuring of the third cycle of medical studies and faculty -specific problems have only increased to their symptoms.
While medical students finally reached an understanding of the government, their fights are far from over.
