The National Administrative Commission of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), meeting on Thursday, 4 June 2026, at the Union’s headquarters in Mohamed Ali Square under the chairmanship of Brother Salah Eddine Salmi, Secretary-General, and in a delicate national context marked by the continued deterioration of economic and social conditions, the worsening hardships faced by wage earners and the broader popular classes, as well as the paralysis of social dialogue,

About two weeks ago, I received an English patient for consultation. She herself is a doctor, practising in Scotland. During our conversation, she told me how impressed she was by the competence of Tunisian doctors — an excellence she had witnessed on several occasions.

Then she asked me a simple yet profoundly challenging question:

“Why are Tunisian doctors so brilliant, and how can such a small Third World country concentrate so much medical talent?”