Hundreds of healthcare workers demonstrated outside a hospital in Paris to demand better pay and more resources for a public health sector that is on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Doctors and nurses wearing face masks, clanging bells and banging pans gathered in front of the Robert Debre Hospital, in the north of the city, some carrying banners reading: “no medals, no tear gas but beds and money!”

“The difficulties of public hospitals started quite long ago,” said intensive care pediatrician Stephane Dauger.

According to Reuters, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has promised healthcare workers significant pay hikes as part of the planned reform of the country's public health system.