GIVE US MONEY, NOT MEDALS, HEALTH WORKERS SAY

PARIS Hundreds of health care workers demonstrated outside a hospital in Paris on Thursday to demand better pay and more resources for a public health sector on the pandemic front line.

Doctors and nurses wearing face masks, clanging bells and banging pans gathered in front of the Robert Debre Hospital, some carrying banners reading: “no medals, no tear gas but beds and money!” The rally was taking place as the government is working on a new support plan for health care workers who have been at the forefront of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Health workers have long complained about low salaries and insufficient staffing at French hospitals, leading to a wave of strikes over the past year to demand funding increases.