Muhsen AlMustafa, a researcher assistant at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies, considered that the aim of Legislative Decree No. 16 of 2022, which stipulates the acceptance of doctors as obligated to public service for ten years including military service, is to try to benefit as much as possible from these doctors, especially since it is applied for the first time to a civilian sector, while previously it was in the police sector when a volunteer served five years in order to waive mandatory service.

AlMustafa, who is also a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (timep), pointed out that the salary will be “the salary of the contracting institution, which here is a civilian body, and the doctor will receive the salary corresponding to his academic degree according to the recognized salary scale, and the Basic Law of State Employees will apply to him.” He also considered that doctors would prefer to emigrate outside Syria due to the large financial returns, in addition to the fact that many doctors are unwilling to take such jobs in the government sector, for a period of ten years.