Summoned to strike by their unions, intern doctors demonstrate this Friday afternoon in front of the Ministry of Health, to protest against the extension of their studies for a year, “as a priority” in the medical deserts.
The carabineros met in front of the Ministry of Health from 2:00 p.m., before the call of the National Intersindical de Internos (Isni) and the General Medicine Interns (Isnar-IMG), which demand the withdrawal of the measure that establishes a room year. internship for future general practitioners.
A year of “consolidation”, which would be carried out “priority in areas where medical demography is under-dense” -according to the Social Security budget project for 2023- and which has caused the anger of those interested for three weeks.
“A misunderstanding” according to the minister
This discontent ended up reaching the Minister of Health: this Friday morning, when he was on his way to a Parisian hospital, François Braun was picked up as soon as he arrived by a young doctor wearing a “striking intern” bib, who told him that this reform “I will not help” students.
“We would like to practice our profession as we want (and) be recognized at our fair value (with) a decent salary,” explained the intern.
“It really is a misunderstanding,” replied the minister, assuring that “there was never any condition of obligation”, but rather “economic incentives” for that additional year to be carried out in the medical deserts.
“Everyone agreed” to expand the practices, he said, stressing that the goal is to guarantee future generalists “adequate training” and presenting himself as a “fervent defender of the freedom of installation” of doctors.
“Defies logic, like method”
Pending the outcome of the mission entrusted to four professionals “on the ground”, the Government, therefore, has no intention of modifying the substance of its reform. During the examination of the text this week in the National Assembly, the contested article was also validated by the deputies of the Social Affairs Commission, with some formal amendments, in particular on the supervision of students by trainee teachers who work in the same “area of life”.
It is not enough to satisfy Isni, who “defies logic, like the method” of the executive and denounces in a press release a will of the public powers “to limit the installation and the ways of exercising future practitioners.”
Its president, Olivia Fraigneau, who will be part of a delegation received around 4:00 p.m. by François Braun’s chief of staff, intends to remind him of his “visceral opposition to any coercive policy” and “the dissatisfaction of the inmates for the systematic disregard they show “. ‘object”.
She already knows that she can count on the support of her elders. On the hospital side, the CGT, the CFE-CGC, but also APH practitioners, Amuf emergency doctors and SNPHARE anesthesiologists announced their participation in the demonstration in front of the ministry.
“A place where exercise is even more difficult”
Among the liberals, the CSMF (the first organization of the profession) approved the strike of the interns, judging it “irresponsible” to send them alone to the medical deserts. “All the support” also from the SML, which considers that the measure is equivalent to “loading on the shoulders of young people the weight of 25 years of errors by successive governments.”
The main specialist union, Avenir Spé, is of the same opinion, “because it is not the right solution”, estimated its president Patrick Gasser during a press conference on Thursday. “You don’t send a young man in training to a place where the exercise is even more difficult,” he insisted.
More measured, the first union of generalists, MG France, shares “the concern of the students”, while demanding “a fourth year that lives up to its legitimate expectations”.
A line also defended in a press release by the College of Physicians, “adhering” to “making (this) consolidation phase effective” in all specialties “including general medicine.” But that can not “be considered in any case as a quick response to the difficulties of access to care,” warns the institution.
Source: BFM TV
