In a move aimed at containing a crisis within the health sector, the Iraqi Prime Ministry held a meeting with representatives of rotating resident doctors working in Ministry of Health institutions to listen to their demands and explore ways to address them. These urgent government actions follow threats by senior resident doctors across various provinces to suspend their duties in hospitals and health centers. The potential strike is in protest of what they consider neglect of their constitutionally and legally guaranteed demands, a situation that threatened to paralyze the provision of medical services to citizens.