A lasting status. The Government will expand the work authorizations of doctors with a foreign diploma who were threatened with losing their jobs after failing to pass a selective competition, and will allow the winners of the competition to remain in their current services, the Minister of Labor announced on Monday. , Catherine Vautrin.
In a statement, he explains that, at the request of the President of the Republic, he wants to “ensure the situation of the Padhue (doctors with training outside the European Union), doctors who have become essential for our health system.”
Several thousand candidates affected
These professionals, who have often worked for several years in French health establishments, were forced this year to pass a selective competition, called “knowledge verification tests” (EVC), in order to continue practicing.
A repeal regime that previously allowed establishments to hire non-winners in various precarious statuses “extinct” on December 31, making it impossible for them to remain in their jobs.
But the limited number of places in this competition – 2,700 places for several thousand candidates, who can also apply for this competition from abroad – had left a large part of them in the lurch, some even found themselves “without papers”, due to to your residence permit. It is usually conditioned to their work.
“It was time”
Department heads and hospital unions also denounced the territorial distribution planned for the winners of the competition, established by state services, believing that it would deprive many services of part of their resources.
The doctors who did not appear in the competition “will not be left without a solution: the government will authorize them to continue working during the coming months,” Catherine Vautrin announces in her statement.
“It’s about time, it’s a first element of response to this emergency situation that was unacceptable,” the general secretary of the CGT, Sophie Binet, reacted to AFP. But “there are still points to be resolved”, including the “too short” duration of residence permits.
Source: BFM TV
