INTERVIEW
Medical interns enter the dance of social protest, with an unlimited strike from Tuesday. "We intend to make it last, as long as our demands concerning the public hospital, as well as the training and the remuneration of the interns will not be heard", warns Leonard Corti, Sunday on Europe 1.
During the strike, interns who have given notice should no longer be assigned to their service, with a potential impact on the proper course of care. For the Secretary General of ISNI, "interns are essential in certain services such as emergencies, but they are practitioners in training and therefore as such, they must not be the linchpins of services."
The movement requires "massive investments" in the public hospital and joins the groups Inter Emergency and Inter Hospitals, which plan to demonstrate on December 17, in Paris and the region.
Training and remuneration of interns
Leonard Corti insists on the need for a fair remuneration of the 27,000 French interns, paid 7 euros per hour for weeks of 48 hours per week. But the ISNI plans to publish "the results of an annual survey that show that this volume would be closer to 55 to 56 hours, with some interns who go up to 80 or 100 hours per week.For the same remuneration of 1.500 euros . "
A real count of hours worked, the payment of overtime and the establishment of better training processes, "on which depend the quality of the public hospital", are part of the demands. Applications that ISNI would like to send to the Ministry of Health today at a meeting.