The general practitioners’ strike is renewed for the second week

A movement that will endure? After a first week of strike that ended on Monday, general practitioners have decided to renew their movement for at least one more week at the request of the “Doctors of Tomorrow” collective. Thus, at least one firm in two should keep the door closed until Monday, January 9.

On its site, the collective indicates that “unfortunately the government has not deigned to pay attention to us despite this first week of strike” and announces that a day of demonstration is scheduled for January 5.

“Decent and dignified” conditions

Among the main demands of the strikers, the doubling of the basic consultation fee (from 25 to 50 euros) to create a “shock of attraction” towards the city’s medicine in tension.

“We demand decent and dignified working conditions for our patients in the hospital and in the city,” Faiza Bossy, a general practitioner, said this Sunday on BFMTV, for whom this strike “is legitimate.”

“It is difficult in general. It obviously puts our patients in a bind and it’s not something we’re particularly committed to. We will always do our best to be with our patients, but the health system is at its limit in the hospital and in the city. ” she added.

On BFMTV, various health specialists report on this strain on the health system in France and fear a deterioration of things in the coming months. “We must prevent it from being completely destroyed,” warns Jean-Louis Teboul, head of the department of intensive medicine and resuscitation at the Bicêtre hospital (AP-HP).

“Unwanted” strike?

Last week, Health Minister François Braun had fanned the ashes of anger by judging this strike as “unwelcome in this period of extreme difficulty for the health system.”

“It is not in the most difficult moment like now that it is good to go on strike,” he had hammered, referring to the triple epidemic that is currently affecting the country.

In response, the Eure-et-Loir prefect decided to requisition doctors for the New Year, as confirmed on our antenna this Saturday, December 31. During a first social movement at the beginning of December, a drop in activity of around 30% was observed among general practitioners, according to data from Health Insurance.