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Emmanuel Macron calls for the regularization of “number of foreign doctors”

Emmanuel Macron wants to “regularize a number of foreign doctors who sometimes hold our healthcare services at arm’s length”, in order to fight against medical deserts, he announced this Tuesday during a press conference.

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Emmanuel Macron calls for the regularization of “number of foreign doctors”

Emmanuel Macron wants to “regularize a number of foreign doctors who sometimes hold our healthcare services at arm’s length”, in order to fight against medical deserts, he announced this Tuesday during a press conference. To “put an end to the scandal of medical deserts”, we must “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 services at arm's length care,” pleaded the Head of State during his press conference organized at the Élysée. These doctors are today left “in 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 “Padhue” doctors 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.

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 this competition and found themselves “in breach of contract” at the end of December, 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, whose only “hope” according to them was to commit to retaking these tests, in exchange for a “limited” and temporary “authorization to practice”. A rally is planned for January 18 in front of the ministry to demand their continued employment and “dignified status”. The immigration law adopted in parliament in mid-December provided for the upcoming establishment of a new multi-year “talent – ​​medical and pharmacy profession” residence permit, to meet the “need for recruitment of qualified health personnel”, firstly place the Padhue.

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