COVID-19 pandemic leaves French hospital interns at breaking point

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PARIS: After a year working brutally long hours on the 'COVID front-line', hospital interns in France are at breaking point, to the extent that ...

Medical interns and families lay flowers below a banner reading"The hospital is killing his interns, help us live" as they pay homage to five medical interns who committed suicide since the beginning of the year during a gathering in front of the French Health Ministry to denounce the heavy workload, in Paris, on Apr 17, 2021.

According to a study carried out over a three-month period in 2019 by the national interns' union ISNI, 58-hour weeks were actually the norm. "Together, we are committed to improving their working conditions, starting with their working hours," the minister tweeted following the meeting, but ISNI said the responses it had received were too vague.Since the start of 2021, five hospital interns have committed suicide. That was equivalent to"a suicide every 18 days," said Casanova.

 

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