300 foreign doctors who practice in France began a three -day hunger strike this Wednesday, March 5 to report the precariousness of their situation.
“We are poorly paid, almost three or four times, while we are doing the same job and we are with precarious, limited, renewable contracts, we are not free,” says Mahmoud Kechoout, a psychiatrist at the Nanterre Hospital (Hauts-de-Seine), with BFMTV.
“Indispensable practitioners”
Algerian nationality, has been working in France for five years. Like him, many postgraduate practitioners outside the European Union deplore this precariousness and ask for the regularization of a greater number of them. Because to exercise in France, they must take test verification tests. But during the last session, 20% of the places that would be assigned were not granted.
“They tell us that the notes are not satisfactory, but it is false because in the end we end up with the 14 on average just failed only because the jury decided to establish the highest bar for a specialty,” laments Abdelhalim Bensaidi, associate doctor in Diabetology and president of the Ipaddic association.
However, Emmanuel Macron had asked in January 2024 the regularization of the “number of foreign doctors” that “sometimes have care services to combat medical destructure.
“These practitioners tend to chain the guards, to do everything that is more unpleasant, they are practitioners who are essential,” confirms Christian Guy-Coichard, hospital practitioner and animator of the collective doctors of the UFMICT-CGT Union.
A demonstration is scheduled for this Saturday, March 8, before the Ministry of Health.
Source: BFM TV
