In France, hundreds of non-EU medical staff, identified as "padhue," have initiated a three-day hunger strike to protest against their precarious working conditions and low salaries. Reports suggest they earn up to three times less than their EU counterparts and face uncertainty with six-month contract renewals. Despite President Macron's acknowledgment of the issue last year and his government's pledge to reform their status, many still find themselves in vulnerable positions. A demonstration supporting their cause is scheduled to occur outside the Ministry of Health in Paris, indicating ongoing tensions and demands for change.
"We find ourselves in an unacceptably precarious situation," Abdelhalim Bensaïdi, a striking diabetes specialist who works at Nanterre Hospital in the suburbs of Paris told the public radio station France Inter.
A year ago, French President Emmanuel Macron recognised that the situation was untenable, stating that 'in some cases they are holding our health care services together, while we leave them in a precarious administrative situation.'
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