AMMAN — If the Jordan Medical Association (JMA) decides to
suspend the membership of doctors who have not paid their financial dues to the
association and the pension fund, about 4,000 doctors would be immediately
dismissed, and they would not be permitted to practice the profession,
according to sources from the JMA.
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The majority of these doctors work in the public sector for the Ministry
of Health, universities, and the Greater Amman Municipality, Al-Ghad News
reported.
Currently, the association is carefully studying the cancellation of
these memberships, given that this step could “greatly affect the practice of
the profession and the Jordanian medical sector”, the sources said.
Doctor membership in figuresJMA President Ziyad Al-Zoubi said that the JMA’s most recent statistics show
that about 28,000 doctors practice within the Kingdom in the public and private
sectors.
In a statement shared with Al-Ghad, Zoubi indicated that about 50
percent of practitioners regularly pay their dues to the association, while the
memberships of 50 percent of Ministry of Health doctors have either been
cancelled or are subject to immediate cancellation according to the Medical
Association Law.
Meanwhile, about 65 percent of doctors and professors working at
universities have fallen behind in paying their dues to the association, and
are subject to suspension.
Reinstating membershipDoctors who fall into this category were given a four-month grace period
that ended last month, exempting those who pay their debts to the association
from any fines and providing the possibility of paying in instalments.
Furthermore, the Minister of Health had issued a circulation to doctors
working for the ministry regarding the need to resolve their situations, but he
did not implement the JMA’s proposal to deduct the dues from doctors’ salaries.
Any doctor who comes forward to pay their financial obligations will be
reinstated to the association, on the condition that they pay their dues in
full and sign legal documents regarding the payment of installments should they
choose that method of payment.
Pharmacist suspensionsIn a similar development, the Jordan Pharmacists Association announced
on Tuesday the removal of the names of thousands of pharmacists from its
records of practicing pharmacists and the removal of their names from the
records of the association’s Pension and Social Security Fund, due to their
failure to pay their annual fees.
The syndicate said that pharmacists who have lost their memberships are
only able to reregister as practicing pharmacists with the association and the
retirement fund within one year from the date of termination, after paying all
financial obligations and the enrollment fee of JD150.
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