The right of withdrawal exercised by liberal general practitioners on call at the Chartres hospital medical center is part of a very tense context in the health sector.
The Medici per il domani collective, born on social media, has asked for the closure of practices from December 26 to January 2. A branch of the movement was created in Eure-et-Loir. The strike is particularly followed in the department, according to Julien Cottet, president of the board of the Eure-et-Loir medical association.
“Their numbers are growing, and we haven’t seen a movement of this magnitude since the outpatient care permanence strike several years ago,” she explains.
In a press release on Friday, signed by 110 Eurelian general practitioners, the departmental branch of Doctors for Tomorrow explains:
“Not a week goes by without a doctor or his secretariat being attacked verbally or physically in the Eure-et-Loir”
The medical team
The strikers also say they “measure the scale of the current health disaster” and say they suffer “every day from no longer being able to provide good care” to their patients and “from not being able to hire new ones” .
“Free up medical time”
The doctors on strike specify that they continue to provide scheduled visits, follow-ups for newborns or patients with chronic conditions. Instead, they decided not to receive any more emergencies, not to write any more certificates or fill out forms, in protest.
The Eurelian collective lists a series of proposals “to free up medical time, make the population responsible” or even “to put an end to administrative medicine”.
The prefecture of Eure-et-Loir announces measures to ensure continuity of care
In particular, they ask for “a transfer of skills to state-qualified nurses, a single consultation for 50 euros” or even the establishment of “a specific crime of ‘aggression against a caregiver in the exercise of his duties'”.
