A general practitioner who exercises in the Loira was the subject of a requisition of the prefecture that asked him to do medical guard tasks that he had stopped performing due to a work overload, he reported on Friday, January 24. Progress. Since then he is loss of illness.
While in full consultation in his office located in Bully, a town of just over 400 inhabitants, southwest of the town of Roanne, the header is surprised to receive the visit of the Gendarmes on Tuesday. They ask you to fulfill your functions that same afternoon, between 20 and 24 hours.
The police made the trip with the aim of enforcing the prefecture requirement against the general practitioner. The latter was criticized for not providing guards in the area since the beginning of the year, according to the local newspaper.
Overloaded from the exit of another doctor
The header had made the decision to stop lending guard after the march in June 2024 of the other doctor in the sector. For 6 months, he was in charge of the entire population of patients, some 1,500 people, with only the help of three interns.
“It has a workload that has increased so much that it cannot manage everything,” says the director of the Association of the Marais Health Center, which uses the head doctor Rodolphe Calandry.
The doctor’s decision had also been clearly announced in advance of the Regional Health Agency of Auvernia-Rodano-Alpes, to the College of Physicians and other doctors in the sector. After this announcement, other doctors in the area assumed some shifts, while others were vacancies.
Requisitions authorized by the Health Code
The Public Health Code requires that the guardians of the working days, between 8:00 p.m. hours.
Normally, these guard services must be performed by surrounding doctors, but only voluntarily. However, when you do not have a guard, doctors may be used.
“I proposed to the prefect to issue a requisition order since the guard list was incomplete, the need for access to health care and the fact that the emergencies were overwhelmed,” explains the deputy director of the delegation of the Ars Loira, Maxime Aubin. . “It’s not pleasant and it is the first time this happens to me,” he says.
A temporary solution was implemented
The decision, however, surprised the doctor who immediately interrupted her consultations and is loss of illness until at least on February 15.
“The requisition was the drop that filled the glass and caused our doctor to take the decline due to excess work,” 3 regions told France the director of the Association of the Marais Health Center. “She is determined to stop,” he says, specifying that she prefers not to speak publicly on this issue.
Since then, the municipality has found a temporary solution. Another doctor will provide two days a week during the next two weeks.
However, the city is worried because the region suffers a shortage of health professionals. “Young doctors who want to settle do not want to come to an office in a small city,” says the deputy mayor of the city, Mireille Brunelin.
Source: BFM TV
