The National Union of Diploma Practitioners outside the EU called for a rally on Tuesday before the Ministry of Health. These fear being extended in a “precarious status”.
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He has been alerting several months. Doctors with a foreign diploma now point to an “alarming situation”. In particular for those of them who are waiting to be issued an authorization of full exercise in France, within the framework of one of the main procedures to obtain it, on file, which must end on December 31, 2022.
A “considerable delay” has been accumulated by regional health agencies and the National Management Center, responsible for examining the approximately 4,500 files of “outside the European Union” diploma, denounces the National Union of Practitioners at Diploma outside EU (SNPADHUE), which called for a rally on Tuesday, May 31, in front of the Ministry of Health. “Only 1,500 files have so far arrived until the National Management Center, says Nefissa Lakhdara, secretary general of the SNPADHUE. We refuse an extension of this procedure after December 31, it has already been extended by one year with The COVID-19, doctors want to see the end of the tunnel. There is no question of being still maintained in precarious statutes, you must put the means to instruct all files. “
“Madam Minister, the Padhue are slaughtered”, chanted a few dozen “white blouses” united Avenue de Ségur, where the new Minister of Health and Prevention, Brigitte Bourguignon, received them. She is committed to “studying all the possible acceleration pathways for the treatment of individual situations”, reports the ministry.
“We remain in the blur”
exercising under different statutes, practitioners holding a diploma coming from a country outside the EU represent a little known part of the hospital, and yet crucial to allow many services to shoot. The anger rises in the face of the “slowness” of the procedure relating to the so -called “stock” decree, open to foreign doctors who have already exercised at least two years in a health establishment to obtain a final exercise authorization, notably via an examination of their files by various regional and national commissions.
“My file has not yet passed before the national commission … If it continues to hang out, my diploma will not be validated, I would no longer have the right to exercise”, worries Seif Zebouche, graduate of General medicine in Algeria, which has worked for five years in the emergency room of the Montfermeil hospital, in Seine-Saint-Denis. “We also need clarity on the conditions to validate, because for the moment, the same thing is not asked for foreign doctors who have the same route, he says about additional internships or training requested after The examination of the file. For the moment, we stay completely in the blur, we do not know what we will have to do. “In his service, which like many hospitals is preparing for a difficult summer, they are 14 Padhue, out of 17 practitioners.