Two resident doctors in Algeria have died in quick succession in what colleagues say are emblematic of the chronic overwork, understaffing and inadequate conditions inside the country's public hospitals — deaths that have reignited a long-running dispute between the medical community and the authorities.
Dr Aymen Badis, a resident neurosurgeon at the Frantz Fanon Hospital in Blida, died of a heart attack after completing a 24-hour on-call shift.
