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In the immigration bill, which will be presented to the Council of Ministers and then to Parliament in January, the government proposes the creation of a residence permit for foreign caregivers. Objective: to be able to meet the need for recruitment in this sector in difficulty. “A bad patch” decides Dr. Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor and medical director of Doctissimo.
France lacks practitioners in the field of health. Inspired by the talent passport that already exists, the government therefore wants to offer a residence permit for foreign health professionals, in order to encourage them to come and practice in France.
Different health professionals involved
The idea would therefore be to allow a massive recruitment of people from abroad, by facilitating their regularization by a specific residence permit, baptized “talent – medical and pharmacy professions”. This title would relate to doctors “whatever their specialty“, midwives, dental surgeons as well as pharmacists, specifies the text sent Monday to the Council of State.
A card subject to recruitment by a health establishment
This residence permit will therefore be intended for health professionals and their families. “as soon as they are recruited by a public or private non-profit health establishment”. She “will make it possible to improve the clarity and attractiveness of the right of residence for these qualified groups, while taking into account the challenges of verifying the aptitude of foreign professionals to practice in the hospital sector” further clarifies the text.
The latter thus plans to condition the issuance of the title to an authorization from the Regional Health Agency (ARS). Its period of validity, from one to four years, will depend on the validation by the practitioner of the EVC, the knowledge verification tests.
A severe lack of nursing staff
This option reflects the lack of health professionals at the national level. Invited to the microphone of France Info, the Minister of Health, François Braun, confirms that we are closing hospital beds in France, by “lack of caregivers“.
And the hospital is not the only sector suffering. About 10% of the French population, ie more than six million people, do not have a registered attending physician. Not to mention the delays in access to a specialist which are getting longer, or the geographical remoteness of these practitioners, due to the growing medical desertification. So many difficulties of access to care that a growing number of French people encounter.
Dr Gérald Kierzek: “A short-term solution that will not solve the deep crisis of the health system”
For Dr Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor and medical director of Doctissimo, this option is a false good idea which will not allow the structural problem in the long term.
“It’s a bad patch, a short-term solution that won’t solve the deep crisis of the health care system. This in no way solves the crisis of vocations, the poor distribution of existing professionals, resignations due to institutional mistreatment, not to mention the aberration of health competitions which pushes young people to go and study abroad….! We walk on the head by failing potential students future doctors or professionals and by bringing in underpaid foreign practitioners, exploited and who will also flee the hospital as soon as possible“.