Reportage. At the Hôpital de l'Aigle in the Orne, meeting with Dr Patrick Kingolé, a graduate of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he has been practicing for a year full time. He was unable to extend his residence permit, blocked by red tape. The support of the hospital and the media coverage of its history forced the prefecture to issue an extension of his residence permit. Paid at the SMIC, he must devote one day every three months to make administrative steps in the prefecture. Commentary on factual images alternating with interviews with Dr Kingolé and Dr Isabelle Duval De Laguierce, gastroenterologist.
At the hospital of La Fontaine in Saint Denis, meeting with two Moroccan doctors, graduated in Morocco but also in France. They are paid little more than interns after being interns in Paris hospitals for 5 years. Nabil Kamal Idrissi and Abdelssamade Lamzalah are obstetric surgeons and are paid on average 40% less than their colleagues. They’ve been on a three-year contract. They’re asking for status recognition. Commentary on images of surgeons in the performance of their duties and interview with Dominique Verrieres, hospital practitioner in anesthesia resuscitation.
Rerportage. At the hospital of Montfermeil in Seine Saint Denis, meeting with foreign doctors who devoted themselves during the health crisis but are forced to accumulate precarious short-term contracts and poorly paid. In this hospital, foreign doctors represent 50% of the workforce. Commentary on factual images alternating with interviews with Kais Regaieg, Tunisian resuscitator, Dany Toledano, head of resuscitation and Hocine Saal, head of emergency department and vice-president of the National Union of PADHUE.
Reportage. At the University Hospital of Caen, meeting with the Burrundian pediatrician Laurent Nimubona. Despite his 14 years of studies, more than half of which in France, his income is 30 to 50% lower than French doctors and his precarious situation is questioned every year. Commentary on factual images alternating with the interview of Dr Nimubona.
Reportage. Many foreign doctors work in hospitals in France. These foreign doctors denounce low salaries and the precariousness of their status since 500 of them risk not being renewed next year. Meeting with a foreign doctor, Doctor Ekaterina Kutsia, Georgian pediatrician, who has been working in France for 4 years. Commentary on illustration images interspersed with interviews with Doctor Ekaterina Kutsia, Georgian pediatrician at the Arpajon Hospital (Essonne) and Cédric Lussiez, Director of the Arpajon Hospital.
Meeting with Dr Ahmed Ben, anesthetic doctor at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital. This Tunisian doctor studied in Tunisia but chose France for his last year of specialty. He explains why he does not plan to practice in the future in Tunisia. Comment on pictures of the doctor at the hospital.
At the Melun hospital, meeting with Dr Nabil Bendjemai, an Algerian orthopedic surgeon who has been practicing in France since 2018. He explains that he must renew his title every 6 months and talks about the difficulties he encounters to do so. The government is considering a new specific residence card for health professionals.
Problème de santé publique, l'asthme, qui touche 3 millions et demi de Français, a sa Journée mondiale, mais aussi maintenant son "école", notamment à Marseille, afin d'accueillir les malades et leur apprendre à vivre avec cette contrainte. Témoignage de Yann Elsensohn et de Paule Baro (malades).
Rencontre avec Pierre Lehmann, 79 ans, atteint de BPCO, ou bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive, maladie qui se manifeste souvent par une bronchite chronique. Pierre se soigne chez un kinésithérapeute grâce notamment à des séances de sport. La cause la plus fréquente du BPCO est le tabac, et effectivement, Pierre a fumé pendant 50 ans... Cette maladie touche 2 millions et demi de personnes en France. Témoignage de Pierre, et interview de Catherine Jourda, sa kinésithérapeute.
Focus sur la bronchiolite, maladie respiratoire qui touche chaque année en cette saison de nombreux bébés. Témoignage du père et de la mère de nourrissons traités, et interview de Jean-Pierre Lemaître (kinésithérapeute).
La pollution est à l'origine de maladies respiratoires graves, et est l'une des principales causes de mortalité en France. Plus de 40 millions de Français sont régulièrement confrontés à un niveau de pollution trop élevé. Témoignage de Régine Jimenez (malade), et interview de Jean-François Mornex (pneumologue), de Olivier Da Costa (professeur d'Education physique), et de Moussa Ayong (éducateur sportif).
La progression en France du nombre d'asthmatiques et de personnes souffrant de troubles allergiques conduit le ministère de la Santé à lancer un vaste programme de prévention. Interview de Alain Grimfeld (pédiatre au Centre de l'asthme Hôpital Trousseau) et de Philippe Douste-Blazy (ministre délégué à la Santé).
A Lyon, étude sur les maladies respiratoires avec des enquêteurs se rendant chez les particuliers afin de leur poser des questions et y procéder à un examen médical élémentaire. Images d'une visite et explications d'un responsable sanitaire de la ville.
Micro-trottoir de passants sur ce qu'ils pensent de la tuberculose, et interview d'un professeur en médecine : "La tuberculose est encore très fréquente dans certaines classes de la population et certains groupes d'âges... Et on ignore malheureusement que la tuberculose pulmonaire est une maladie essentiellement contagieuse..."
Dans le cadre de la prévention des maladies respiratoires chez le nourrisson, explications, dans le service maternité d'un hôpital, d'un pédiatre professeur en médecine, et images de bébés traités.
Testimonials from retired seniors of modest means who talk about their pensions and allowances and how they organize their budget. Some are often helped by their municipalities (food, heating).
In 1962, even though retirement went from 9,000 to 11,000 francs a month, three million elderly people in France tried not to starve. The report of State Councillor Pierre Laroque, who makes an inventory of the situation of old age, emphasizes that this issue is as much of a societal order as economic and demographic and recommends several approaches. Among them, as explained by the Professor of Medicine and Gerontologist François Bourlière, it is necessary "to leave the right [to the elderly] to have occupations adapted to their age, adapted to their personal possibilities, which allow them not only to increase their resources but also intellectually and physically to maintain a certain balance that is necessary for their well-being". For Alfred Sauvy, demographer and director of the INED, retirement is conceived "as a means of making the old leave so that they rid the working population" going sometimes even to a form of segregation in "old quarters so that they are no longer in front of the eyes" (images of an old people’s home).
In 1962, Alfred Sauvy, Professor at the Collège de France, exposed the problem under the financial aspect of retirement in France. The number of "old men" is increasing in our country, so there is a financial problem. One has to make a choice: "One can ensure a relatively satisfactory standard of living for a limited number of people, or else ensure a lower standard of living for a large number of people." Sweden and Denmark have chosen to grant retirement at 67 with high pensions.
Twice a week, the NGO "Médecins du Monde" goes to a vacant lot in the Parisian suburbs where a hundred Romanians have lived for four years. Without water or sanitation and in the cold, the first victims are children. During consultations, doctors make the same observation: pathologies arise from living conditions. The role of volunteer doctors is to treat but also to help these families in the administrative procedures to obtain care, including the AME (State Medical Aid). Testimony of a young Roma woman and two doctors.
Thanks to the State Medical Aid (AME), undocumented people have free access to care. But a law has just been passed that requires them to prove their residence in France. For doctors the argument of reducing expenses is inadmissible, the risk being that patients return to the hospital emergency room, already overwhelmed. Testimonies of doctors at the hospital of La Grave in Toulouse.