Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest on Friday after the death of a doctor who fell from a broken hospital lift. Photo: AFP Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest on Friday after the death of a doctor who fell from a broken hospital lift. Photo: AFP
Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest on Friday after the death of a doctor who fell from a broken hospital lift. Photo: AFP

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Doctors protest after Tunisian medic plunges to his death in hospital lift accident

  • The lift had allegedly remained in service despite a long-reported fault
  • Local media reported that Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi ordered a state funeral

Topic |   Africa
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 6:39am, 5 Dec, 2020

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Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest on Friday after the death of a doctor who fell from a broken hospital lift. Photo: AFP Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest on Friday after the death of a doctor who fell from a broken hospital lift. Photo: AFP
Tunisian doctors and medical students demand the dismissal of the minister of health during a protest on Friday after the death of a doctor who fell from a broken hospital lift. Photo: AFP
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