After François Bayrou’s ads about medical deserts, a new mobilization of doctors. The latter are called the strike this Monday, April 28 and to demonstrate on Tuesday, against a bill to regulate their profession.
The dissatisfaction comes from a transparty bill, on the initiative of Guillaume Garot (PS), whose flagship article was adopted in early April by the National Assembly, the examination of the rest of the text that was scheduled for early May.
This text, which advocates the regulation of facilities in favor of medical deserts, causes the wrath of liberal doctors, medical students, internal and young doctors, for whom this project “will undermine the attraction of liberal medicine, nowadays the first wall of the health system.”
“Politicians don’t listen to”
Lucas Poittevin, president of the National Association of Medicine Students in France (Anemf), launched on April 16 a call to “a national strike of unlimited Union as of April 28”.
The Government, hostile to the Garot project, lit a counter-capital on Friday, presenting itself as an alternative to the “end of freedom of installation”, a plan to combat medical deserts. But the emblematic measure presented by François Bayrou, imposes up to two days a month of consultation with doctors in the priority areas of the territory, also stole certain practitioners.
“If it is an individual obligation, I think it will strengthen the strike,” predicts even with the AFP Sophie Bauer, president of the Union of Liberal Physicians (SML).
“Politicians do not listen,” Deplora Philippe Cuq, co -chair of the Future Spé Le Bloc of the Union (Union of Medical and Watergic Specialties), afflicted by the Garot Project and the Bayrou Plan. “Last week, I made several meetings to explain to them. We were received in the cabinet (from the Minister of Health, note of the editor). And they cannot write that correctly (in the Bayrou, note of the editor),” he gets tired.
For the Garot deputy, the advanced consultation principle two days a month will not respond “at the scale of the problem: the less well equipped areas are rarely close to the most equipped areas.”
“Although the government’s announcement plan has planned many actions to try to fight medical deserts, we will say that if the Parliament decides to vote for this Garot bill, the regulation will apply anyway,” synthesizes for the AFP Lucas Poittevin.
“Create a risk, a health risk”
Young doctors, of which he is one of the votes, require a hard strike on Monday, with the closure of companies. The majority of installed liberal unions are not in this line, except the France Federation (FMF). “My cabinet is closed on Monday, Tuesday, either, my replacement, my interns,” reports his president Patricia Lefébure to AFP.
The Union of General Practices (MG France, a majority among liberals) only recommends going to “demonstrate young doctors, because they are careful for the Garot project,” as its president Agnès Giannotti says.
“We gave how it was recorded on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to stop the activities. As far as possible. Because we still have important restrictions with scheduled surgeries,” Philip Philippe Cuq. “I think it is necessary, to move politicians, create a risk. A health risk. There is only what will make politicians listen,” he says.
“Closing for ten days, until the text is examined, it is out of discussion, I have patients to take care of,” he exhibits for AFP Franck Devulder, president of the French medical unions Confederation (CSMF). “On the other hand, being in support of the youngest and the interns, because it is a bill that addresses young people is obvious,” he extends to the manager.
As many of the liberals installed, he called “the strike of the permanence of attention and the service of access to attention until the withdrawal of this proposal.” That is, a strike shared at night, on weekends and vacations.
Source: BFM TV
