foreign doctors threatened with expulsion demonstrate again

Around fifty doctors demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Health to denounce their administrative situation, while they risk having to leave the territory.

They were waiting for developments, after the announcements by the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister in January. They then said they were in favor of the regularization of Padhues, these doctors who graduated in a country outside the European Union, but who practice their profession in France. Oncologists, general practitioners or even emergency doctors, often stationed in a hospital, but with ephemeral contracts.

For several months, they have been denouncing their precarious situation and especially the fact of not being regularized, despite their work. Since nothing has changed for a month, the unions decided to demonstrate on Thursday February 15 in Paris, in front of the Ministry of Health, to make things happen.

The same work as French doctors

Among the fifty demonstrators, Zeineb, an oncology graduate from Casablanca, Morocco, explains her situation: “I have been working in France since September 2021. I provided consultations for new cases and follow-up consultations. All the work of a doctor.” His contract ended in January, after a competition, for quota reasons. “For a matter of 0.5 points, we were rejected from the competition even though we were well above the average”she explains.

Since receiving these results, the young woman has been unemployed and risks having to leave the country. “We have our life here, after two years. And after these years, we are told ‘goodbye, you can leave’.”

“All hospitals in France lack practitioners, and we are depriving ourselves of trained and competent practitioners.”

Paul Robell, emergency doctor in Vannes

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The government has already made announcements but Laurent Laporte, secretary general of the Federal Union of Doctors, Engineers, Managers and Technicians, is awaiting action. “They absolutely must continue, they must take their courage in both hands. Behind it, it is an issue of public interest. We want to treat people, and here, we cannot.” A delegation was received Thursday afternoon at the Ministry of Health.