2024-01-16 22:54:40
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 9:30 p.m., Updated yesterday at 9:54 p.m.
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To fight against medical deserts, the President of the Republic wants to get foreign doctors out of “administrative precariousness which is completely ineffective”.
Emmanuel Macron wishes “regularize a number of foreign doctors who sometimes keep our healthcare services at arm’s length», in order to fight against medical deserts, he announced this Tuesday during a press conference. For “put an end to the scandal of medical deserts“, it’s necessary “allow simpler coordination» between community medicine and hospitals, and with the paramedical professions, but also «regularize a number of foreign doctors who sometimes keep our healthcare services at arm’s length», pleaded the Head of State during his press conference organized at the Élysée. These doctors are today left “in an administrative precariousness which is completely ineffective“, he said.
A few thousand practitioners qualified outside the European Union (Padhue) work in French public hospitals, as non-permanent, with lower salaries than European practitioners. According to several hospital unions, these doctors “Padhue» represent around a quarter of the practitioners working in hospitals today. Their number increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the country was seriously lacking doctors.
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A gathering planned for January 18
The CGT and a union of foreign doctors, the SNPADHUE, have been warning since the beginning of winter about new rules which have required these doctors for a year to take knowledge verification tests (EVC) to be able to continue to practice. Many failed in this competition and found themselves at the end of December “in breach of contract», wrote the SNPADHUE and four other unions including the CGT and the Amuf (association of emergency doctors in France) in a petition published at the beginning of January.
They estimated that there were 2,000 of these doctors in an unstable situation, including the only one “hope“consists according to them of committing to retaking these tests, against one against “limited exercise authorization» and temporary. A rally is planned for January 18 in front of the ministry to demand their continued employment and a “worthy status“. The immigration law adopted in parliament in mid-December provided for the upcoming establishment of a new multi-year residence permit “talent – medical and pharmacy profession”, to answer the “need to recruit qualified health personnel», firstly the Padhue.
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