Immigration law. 5,000 caregivers demand the withdrawal of the text, “deadly for public health”
It is the turn of caregivers to sound the alarm. More than 5,000 health professionals and around fifty caregiver organizations are concerned, in a forum made public this Saturday, about the “dramatic health and social consequences” of immigration law.
“We, women and men in the health, social, care and research professions, wish to confront the President of the Republic and his government with their immense responsibility,” they write in a column.
“seriously calls into question our humanist health model”
They “solemnly” ask Emmanuel Macron to “not promulgate” the text.
Among the signatories are the general secretary of the Union of health center doctors Julie Chastang, the co-president of the Inter Urgences collective Pierre Schwob-Tellier, the representative of the French pediatric society Christèle Gras-Le Guen and the psychiatrist and national secretary of the PS Antoine Pélissolo, as well as professional organizations and associations.
For them, the immigration law adopted Tuesday forceps by Parliament “seriously calls into question our humanist health model”.
“Contrary to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child”
It will have consequences in particular on the health of “the most vulnerable, the children”, they assure, fearing “an intolerable deterioration in infant mortality, which has already increased for ten years in France” due to “social inequalities in particular “.
This text “is contrary to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child”, they write, citing the “limitation of family reunification”, the “complication of administrative procedures necessary for unaccompanied minors” or the “limitation of accommodation for emergency “.
They also deplore the new conditions introduced to benefit from social assistance.
“Restrictions on housing for illegal immigrants threaten to further marginalize them, forcing them to live in precarious and unsanitary conditions”, with “devastating effects on their physical and mental health”, they continue, recalling that the Lack of housing also exposes people to “the street and situations of sexual vulnerability”.
A text that will “increase medical emergencies”
“The suspension of medical care for rejected asylum seekers and the restrictions on residence permits due to serious illness” risk “increasing medical emergencies” and contributing to the spread of “infectious diseases” .
The signatories finally recall that “25% of doctors working in hospitals today are practitioners with qualifications outside the European Union”.
They ask themselves: “how can we humanly understand that we attract doctors to France, to the detriment of their countries of origin, while refusing to treat patients from these same countries? »
