Immigration: limited impact of residence permit “medical talent-professional”

The Immigration Bill, presented in the Council of Ministers in January, creates a maximum residence permit for graduate doctors outside the European Union. The scope of this measure leaves associations of health practitioners.

This is the qualified immigration component of the bill “to control immigration and improve integration”, submitted by the government on December 19 to the Council of State, before a presentation in the Council of Ministers at the month of January.

By creating a residence permit “medical talent-professional and pharmacy”, the interior and work ministers, Gérald Darmanin and Olivier Dussopt, seek to give wages to the 5,000 health practitioners graduates outside the union European (Padhue) which exercise in public hospitals, under precarious conditions.

In recent months, these doctors, midwives, dental surgeons or even pharmacists have expressed their impatience during sit-in in front of the Ministry of Health, while more than 2,000 of them have been waiting for after Two years, whether their file be examined by a national committee for authorization for the fiscal year. Faced with the delay, the government, in an amendment to the social security financing bill, proposed postponed the deadline for the deadline for the deadline, initially arrested on December 31, 2022.

For Slim Bramli, gastroenterologist and hepatologist doctor, president of the Federation of Health Practitioners (FPS), it is urgent to remedy the precariousness of graduate professionals outside the European Union. “The situation is very embarrassing to see the prefecture point every six months to renew their residence permit, men and women doctors, winners of a very selective contest.”

“Status of Associated trainee “

Foreign practitioners exercise 70 % in medical deserts, estimates Brahim Zazgad, president of the union of union of graduates outside the European Union. “There are deserts including in the heart of Paris, in certain services such as psychiatry, he alerts. I am struck by the precariousness of foreign doctors, some of which have the status of associated trainee, with a salary between 1,200 euros and 1,400 euros per month. “

Two residence cards “medical talent-professional and pharmacy” are envisaged by the government, depending on the status of the health professional: the first, with a maximum duration of thirteen months, is intended for the foreign practitioner who holds a job for a period equal to or more than one year within a public or private non -profit establishment; The second, of a maximum duration of four years, is attributed to the one who has successfully passed the anonymous tests of verification of fundamental and practical knowledge (EVC), a competition which constitutes the first stage of the authorization procedure Exercise.

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