Foreign hospital practitioners forced to reimburse up to € 100,000 in the hospital

Most of most of Algeria or Morocco, several foreign doctors find themselves today in the midst of a financial nightmare. Consequently, They are 47. Meanwhile, employees by the large Eastern Hospital of Ile-de-France (GHEF), in Seine-et-Marne, new establishment born from the merger of the hospitals of Meaux, Coulommiers and Marne-la-Vallée, summoned to reimburse up to 100,000 € of premiums received in recent years.

The Seine-et-Marne hospital ensemble. Meanwhile, facing serious recruitment problems in recent years, had proposed to pay an additional non-regulatory premium to foreign doctors. In addition, These graduate practitioners outside the EU (Padhue). Similarly, contractual, were foreign hospital practitioners forced reimburse attracted to the services by this interesting financial gratuity, which returned to a doubling of their initial salary, estimated on average at € 1,900 per month. For example, Indeed. Nevertheless, due to the disability of their medical diploma in France, although qualified and sometimes experienced, they today remain weakly paid. Meanwhile, “They are almost paid at the same level as the interns”explains Catherine Dos Santos. Similarly, assistant secretary of the CGT for the hospital.

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However. on the occasion of a change of direction in September 2024, the irregularity of this premium was pointed out by the new team having taken the lead. The latter therefore decided at the end of 2024 – “Pursuant to the law” – to regulate this situation. by putting an end to “All irregular pay elements”as indicated by a press release consulted by the Figaro. Thus. gradually, about fifty padhue have been deprived foreign hospital practitioners forced reimburse of this complementary remuneration which has been paid to them since 2020 at least. In March 2025, no one was touching the premium.

But the case does not stop there. On March 31. 2025, practitioners learned from the Directorate of the GHEF that they will also have to reimburse the sums collected in the past 24 months, at the request of the Public Treasury. “Overall, they have between 30,000 and 100,000 euros to be reimbursed. Some are less than thirty and have to make a credit over 25 years »says Catherine Dos Santos. In this way, the GHEF hopes to recover the 2.7 million euros that the Treasury claimed to him. This process, consisting in bringing the former hospital management to the collaborators, arouses the anger and misunderstanding of the victims. “When a fault is committed by an organization. the responsibility is the responsibility of the administration, not the foreign hospital practitioners forced reimburse employees”Grins Delphine Krzisch, lawyer in public law who attends seven doctors. She evokes “A toxic management problem”.

How is it possible that in public service. we are today more mistreated than in the private sector?

Delphine Krzisch. lawyer who attends seven foreign doctors (Padhue)

Faced with this situation, the CGT unionist describes the moral distress of certain practitioners who have deposited sick leave and others who are “Forced to take up to 20 24 -hour guards per month”. For Delphine Krzisch, this request for reimbursement is “A glaring injustice”. “It must be understood that these premiums were a way to fill medical deserts because the hospital can no. longer recruit French doctorsshe explains. Foreign doctors are seen as a kind of windfall, which represents up to half of the foreign hospital practitioners forced reimburse workforce in certain services. ”

The majority of physicians affected called lawyers who have filed appeals before the administrative court. For the moment, as Catherine Dos Santos explains, “The director remains on his positions”. In its press release. the ghef says “Repeating his confidence in his employees concerned, whose medical and human qualities are assets for users of the territory”. For her part. Delphine Krzisch protests: “How did we get there: a public service in which we are today more mistreated than in the private sector?”