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Dozens of hospitals in France may be forced to partially close from Monday (April 3) as locum healthcare workers protest plans to cap their pay.

Workers across emergency departments, anaesthetist care and psychiatry oppose plans to cap their income at 鈧�1,170 gross per day.

France Health Minister Fran莽ois Braun鈥檚 proposals are part of measures designed to fight current laws that mean that locum staff (who fill in for permanent staff) can sometimes earn up to three times more for the same hours.

News magazine Le Point - using data from the replacement doctors鈥� union le Syndicat national des m茅decins rempla莽ants hospitaliers (SNMRH) - reported that, as a result, 69 hospitals could be affected by partial closures from April 3.

Hospital workers have accused locum staff of being 鈥渃annibals鈥�. Supply workers, meanwhile, say they are the ones keeping hospitals running.

The change and subsequent opposition could affect 107 hospital services and elderly care homes. Closures are expected to affect all regions and could include maternity centres, elderly care home nurses, and operating theatres.

A participating doctor : 鈥淐losures will take place in many places because temporary workers work everywhere. The government no longer wants to make us work at appropriate prices.

鈥淚t will soon realise how important we are to keeping hospitals running.鈥�

France鈥檚 health ministry said it wants 鈥渢o find solutions on a case-by-case basis鈥�, but has said it is 鈥渁larmed鈥� by the threat of so many closures.

Staffing shortages in French hospitals have long been a point of contention, with many strikes and protests taking place last year, and staff calling the current situation 鈥渄isastrous鈥�.

Hospital services and elderly care homes that could be affected:

Saint-Quentin, Amiens, Bar-sur-Aube, B茅lizal et Argoat, Bergerac, Blois, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Bourges, Cavaillon, Cherbourg, Mende, Millau, Montbrison, Montlu莽on, Morlaix, Moulins-Yzeure, Nemours, Neufch芒teau, Nevers, Vire, Orange, Pont-Audemer, Pontivy, Pontorson, Rodez, Rouen, Les Sables-d'Olonne, Saint-Omer, Allonnes, and Seclin.

The hospital centres of the following towns may also be affected:

Sud de Seine-et-Marne, Forcilles, Sisteron, Saint-脡tienne, Thionville, Vauclaire, Vernon, Villefranche, Vitr茅, Le Havre, Lens, Libourne, Lillebonne, Lu莽on, Manosque, Marseille, CHU Mayenne and Saint L么, Corse, Digne, Le Tr茅port, 脡vreux, F茅camp, Feurs, Forez, Granville, Grasse, Gu茅ret, Hirson, Pontoise, Issoudun, La Mure, La Sarthe-et-Loir, Lannion, Laval, and Layne Mont-de-Marsan.

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