2023-04-28 05:58:11
Overworked and underpaid, medical interns are called to strike on Friday April 28 for their wages and working conditions, in a context of chronic hospital crisis further aggravated by the standoff over medical interims.
Stress, precariousness, depression: “Young doctors are in psychological distress” and their working time “blithely exceeds the legal maximum” 48 hours a week, alerts the National Intersyndicale des Interns (Isni) in a press release published Thursday.
Launched three weeks ago, its call for a “day without interns” le 28 avril has spread among the other carabineer organizations, from interns in general medicine at Isnar-IMG, to undergraduate and graduate students from Anemf, to recent graduates of Jeunes Médecins.
Their elders from the SNMH-FO, although in the minority among hospital practitioners, also joined in by filing “a strike notice in support of interns and their demands”.
The date was not chosen at random: Friday will be the last day of internship for interns, who change departments each semester. With the hope of a more followed movement than usual, their strikes often being more symbolic than visible.
Concrete claims
Their demands, on the other hand, are very concrete: €300 more per month (i.e. around 15% increase), a housing allowance indexed to rents, a strict breakdown of working time and, for future GPs, the postponement of 10th year of studies – in the absence of cancellation of this reform.
Will they be heard? The context gives them the opportunity, on the eve of an extended weekend of May 1 at high risk, due to a shortage of temporary workers.
Indeed, the turn of the screw on the prices of these substitute doctors (capped at €1,390 gross for 24 hours of work) has been leading to closures of services – total or partial – in dozens of public hospitals for almost a month. Something to emphasize the role of interns, who “represent up to 40% of the medical workforce” in certain establishments, as recalled by Isni.
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