day of action by interns against their working conditions

It’s time for a break, in the streets of Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), for Clémence and Anaïs. They are internal to the hospital. After seven and eight years of study, they are paid only 1,600 and 1,700 euros gross per month for 35 hours per week and actually work double that. “We push back our abilities more and more, but in the end we also remain human, we are not machines”confides Anaïs Bazane, president of the autonomous union of interns in Alsace.

Interns represent up to 40% of the medical staff at the public hospital

Degraded working conditions denounced in a clip of the intersyndicale des interns, which calls for a strike, Friday, April 28. They are asking for a 15% wage increase and a stricter calculation of working time. Interns represent up to 40% of medical staff in public hospitals today.