Tunisia

The personality of this country, through its population, its arts, its foods and its festivals, its squares of blue sky that the windows cut out the white, is a gold mine for any traveler.  Disconcerting country where you will discuss around a mint tea the rain and especially the good weather, when a child offers you some bits of jasmine, where you are going to discover beaches and landscapes to cut the breath. In the green valleys and the plates of north, in the vast desert of the south, or on the island of Djerba « the soft one », you will spend happy days. Tunisia also offers to the traveler testimony of a great history where Carthage marked the Mediterranean world lasting of the centuries. Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Andalusia’s, Italians and French followed one another on the ground of Tunisia and this ground carries their print. These qualities which make Tunisia a preferred destination for research skills in the medical field

Health policy in Tunisia:

The health policy in Tunisia presents some major advantages:

• The guarantee to all individuals regardless of social or economic standing the access to health facilities. The low economic standing citizens are taken in charge and have the right to free services even for major pathologies.
• The continuous training and the improvement of capabilities occupy a greater part in the exercise of the health profession.
• The sustained efforts aimed to reinforce the technical base of hospital structures, laboratory monitoring equipments, the renovation and expansion of building plus the increase of vehicles.
• The major investments for the prevention and rationalization of the health expenditures at all levels.
• The development of scientific and technical research, mainly in genetics, cancerology and neurology.

The international dimension of the Tunisian health sector:

The performance achieved by the health sector in Tunisia resulted in a new dynamic within the international cooperation based on the notion of partnership. The major improvement of human resources, the quality of expertise available, the creation of a acquisition of high end techniques allow Tunisia to position itself as a serious partner in the sectors of cooperation technology and scientific exchanges. As a result, several countries, mainly African and Arabic, increasingly trust know how for assistance, or buy sending their managers and technicians for training in Tunisia.
Since the 1970s, in an effort undertaken by several countries, Tunisia sent members of its medical personal abroad, mainly to the Gulf countries, in order to help them develop their health sectors.