Arab, African doctors saving French lives | Majed Nehme

Arab, African doctors saving French lives | Majed Nehme

The COVID-19 pandemic in France has shed an unexpected light on the crucial role medical doctors, caregivers and researchers from the Arab world and sub-Saharan Africa are playing in the French health-care system.. The French health-care system is increasingly benefiting from the massive influx of sub-Saharan African health professionals coming especially from Senegal, Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo and all French-speaking countries.. According to the website ProfilMedecin, which specialises in recruiting doctors and health workers, "one in every four doctors registered with the French Order of Physicians was born abroad" (https://www.profilmedecin.fr/contenu/le-veritable-poids-des-medecins-etrangers-exercant-en-france/).. With the rapid and massive transformation of the French medical landscape, these anomalies have become an underlying factor in the untenable deficit of health professionals in France.. Today, a petition has been launched demanding the automatic regularisation of the administrative status of the health professionals of foreign origin who are at the frontlines in the battle against COVID-19.. Tunisia and many other countries of North Africa and the Middle East are finding themselves deprived of the services of their highly competent doctors and other medical professionals during an unprecedented health crisis that is sorely testing their medical systems..