![]() I submitted my file to the Regional Health Agency on October 30, 2020. "We told ourselves to be patient and that we had to follow the procedure. ![]() Nearly 4,500 applications, including that of Inès M., were submitted, but three years later, it is clear that the promises have not all been kept. The decree requires a practioner to have worked in a French hospital for two years between January 2015 and June 2021, but also to have completed at least one day of service between Octoand J(a detail that excludes the many foreign doctors who came to help during the health crisis). In August 2020, the Ministry of Health passed a decree to regularize foreign doctors, known as the Stock law. I didn't see my parents for two years !"Īlso read: Germany examines 'offshore' asylum procedures Foreign doctors threatened with deportation We saw 30-year-olds dying every day and we could not go out. remembers a particularly trying period: "We did 8 to 10 shifts a month. The truth needs to come out: during the crisis, many French doctors went to infectious disease departments to study the virus, but during this time, foreigners were on the front line! You are thrown out once they no longer need you."īy establishing a state of health emergency, the government allowed hospitals to extend the duration of the contracts of associate trainees (initially limited to 2 years). In adult emergencies, two-thirds of us were foreign doctors. "I worked in pediatrics, adult emergencies, general-purpose geriatrics and adolescent psychiatry. For two years, foreign doctors filled vacancies in French hospitals, as Inès M. Especially since Covid-19 delayed everything. on Febru| Photo: private On the front line during Covid-19įor the few thousand foreign doctors called practitioners with a diploma outside the European Union (PADHUE) like Inès M., who work in France, obtaining recognition of their foreign diploma and a license to practice is an obstacle course.įirst, they must complete several years of contracts with a precarious status, then pass an international competition with limited places (EVC) and finally a two-year course to consolidate their skills, before obtaining the right to register with the Order of Physicians and access tenured positions.įor most practitioners who have already completed long years of studies, the process of obtaining recognition for their foreign diplomas requires additional schooling. "The decision is not legitimate since my client fulfills all the conditions to have the temporary residence permit, because of the regularity of the situation of her spouse, and the stability of her financial situation There is no valid reason which could justify the obligation to leave the territory."Įxtract from the OQTF received by Inès M. The prefecture seems to have ignored this element: "For me, the OQTF does not make sense," said Tordo. also married her partner, a mechanical engineer who holds a 10-year residence permit, which makes her eligible for the "private and family life" residence permit. ![]() She was even promised employment in the rheumatology department on the provision of the renewal of her residence permit. I wanted to gain experience and I won’t hide the fact that the political instability in Tunisia and economic pressure pushed me to stay in France," she said in perfect French. "I arrived to do an internship in pediatrics. She took on numerous internship positions associated with the Val-d'Oise hospital, paid €1,400 each month, in hope of obtaining recognition of her foreign diploma. arrived in France in May 2018 after completing her medical doctorate in Sousse, Tunisia. I think about it all the time, it prevents me from sleeping." 'For me, the OQTF does not make sense'įor her lawyer, Alexis Tordo, the prefecture’s decision is an aberration. I make a detour on my way to work, and I feel ashamed when I think about my colleagues finding out. "I'm scared when I move around, even though I haven't done anything wrong”, said the doctor, in tears. Since February 27, Inès no longer had any papers to present in the event of a police check. Since then, she hired the services of a lawyer to challenge the decision, which she considers unfair. She received the document on February 15 at her home, after the Val-d'Oise prefecture (department, not far from Paris) refused her last application for a residence permit. was not ill but served with an Obligation de quitter le territoire français, 'an obligation to leave France' (OQTF). The 36-year-old Tunisian pediatrician was on sick leave. One morning in late April, Inès M.* did not go to the Val-d'Oise hospital where she had worked for five years.
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