Parisian freelance doctors go on strike

STORY: Parisian freelance doctors go on strike DATELINE: Jan. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:05:22 LOCATION: Paris CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the demonstration 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SOPHIE BAUER, President of the Union of Liberal Doctors 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): ALIKADA MOKTARIA, Medical worker STORYLINE: French freelance doctors demonstrated in Paris on Thursday to call for higher payments and better working conditions. Several thousand doctors took part in the demonstration. SOUNDBITE 1 (French): SOPHIE BAUER, President of the Union of Liberal Doctors "Doctors in France earn the least in all of Europe, and probably only in Albania do they earn less than we do. We are well below the European average. The result is that we cannot hire another staff to relieve us of all our administrative burdens. This therefore really affects and hinders our therapeutic activities. The second problem is that, for the same reason, we can no longer set up clinics in certain cities, as it is clearly not possible to set