Report: Over 5,905 Algerian doctors fled to French hospitals
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A report that was prepared by the French Doctors’ Deanship Council shows amazing numbers about the brain drain of Algerian doctors to this European country, as Algerians represents 25% of the foreign doctors in France, which is over 5,905 doctors in various specialties and throughout French regions.
The same report shows that 43% of the foreign doctors in France are originated from the Maghreb, and Algerians represent 25 equal to 5,900 doctors, followed by Moroccans with 11.5%, and then Tunisians 7.1%, as these statistics count Algerian doctors who were born in Algeria.
“Average age of Algerian doctors in France is 56 for men and 55 for women. Algerian doctors prefer to work as wage laborers, who were more attractive to them than the free activity in their own clinics, unlike Tunisian doctors who prefer the free activity.”
“Among the Algerian doctors who are registered in the Deanship of French Doctors, 27.7% of them received their graduations in Algerian universities, which clearly reflects the rate of brain drain amid doctors who are graduating from the Algerian University.”
“71.7% of Algerian doctors who are registered in France have received a diploma from a French university, a figure which also shows that the largest percentage of those who migrate to France to study medicine do not return to Algeria, while the rate of doctors who got a joint graduation in Algeria, then in France is 0.6%”.
“Doctors who were born in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, obtained their university graduations from French universities, while Algerian generalists doctors prefer to work in the “Provence,Alpes, and Côte d’azure” area, and the rest of the provinces along the French Mediterranean coast, and the presence of Algerians is equal to the Moroccans in the extreme North in the of Province “Nord Pas de Calais.”
Algerians represent 41% of doctors psychologists in France, and what is striking, contrary to General Medicine, 59.3% of the doctors in this specialty are Algerians who have received their degrees in Algeria and not in France.
“In addition to the eighties which noticed a rise in the number of Algerian immigrants in France, the migration towards France was especially in the last decade from 2000 to 2010, as the ratio was in the range of 31%, reaching 25% in the first four years of the current decimal, while their migration to France in the nineties was weak, despite the security crisis, as the ratio was only 14%.”
Majority of specialists in anesthesia and recovery were mostly from those obtaining a diploma from France by 55.7%, and 43% received a graduation from the Algerian University, and the proportion of Algerian specialists in radiology is large far behind the number of Moroccans and Tunisians, and the Algerian surgeons represent 24.3% of all foreigners in this specialty in France, 0.61% of them obtained a graduation in French universities, and 38 are graduated from Algeria.
Algerian Ophthalmologists represent 36% of the total number of foreign doctors in this specialty in France, 0.62% of them obtained graduation from French universities, while Algerian gynecologists represent 15% of the foreign doctors in France which is the largest rate, while in general surgery Algerians are in the foreground by 21.5%.
