“The objective is to continue what has been launched,” declared the President of the Republic, away from the demonstrators who came to welcome him.
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Lhe French head of state continued his tour of France on Tuesday, April 25 with a stopover in Loir-et-Cher on the theme of health. He was expected by several hundred demonstrators opposed to the pension reform, who welcomed him with a concert of pans, as is now the custom. Came to visit a nursing home, Emmanuel Macron did not make a specific announcement but was content to defend his health plan.
No walkabout this time: the Head of State seems to have given up going to meet people gathered near the nursing home he had just visited, while insults and boos were erupting at him. He left in procession in his vehicle and had to content himself with greeting a few onlookers at the edge of a field when he got back into his helicopter.
“At the end of a model”
No announcement either: the president essentially defended the measures presented at the start of the year to stem an “endless crisis” in the health system. A system that arrives “at the end of a model”, he explained during an exchange with elected officials and caregivers at the multidisciplinary university health center in Vendôme, which he erected as an “ideal-type” what he wants to do in particular to fight against medical deserts.
“The goal is to continue what has been started,” he said, while stressing that training more doctors would take years to show results. Priority therefore remains given to “delegations of acts” to allow nurses, midwives, pharmacists, orthoptists and physiotherapists to perform “acts which are today performed by a doctor”. This should allow practitioners to “take more patients”, starting with the “600,000 to 700,000” chronic patients “who have no attending physician” and to whom he has promised a solution by the end of the year. ‘year.
READ ALSOA president should not talk like that to the FrenchOn the other hand, there is no question of affecting the freedom of installation of doctors to fight against medical deserts. “I don’t believe in the coercive option”, “we need to keep the incentive system”, he insisted. For this, Emmanuel Macron wanted the systematization “from this summer” of “territorial refoundation councils” on the scale of the 1,200 living areas of the country, on the model of his National Refoundation Council launched on last year. A way according to him to “find the right ad hoc solutions” as close as possible to the field and to define “a roadmap over several years” associating “professionals with communities and that the State abounds” financially.
We need to have “the right incentives at the national level and after that we leave more freedom at the territorial level”, he pleaded with journalists. Returning to the field last week after the promulgation of his still disputed pension reform, the president gave himself “one hundred days” to relaunch his second five-year term. Its Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is due to present the government’s roadmap on Wednesday to continue to move forward despite the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
“Saucepans”
Already heckled in Alsace and Hérault, Emmanuel Macron was received in Vendôme by a concert of pans from demonstrators, whose noise he could hear despite the distance. The district had been cordoned off by an important security device, but several hundred protesters from the retirement age at 64, equipped with saucepans, cans and trumpets, invaded a railway line or joined a police roadblock to get closer to the health home.
“It’s to wake up our president, so that he stops making fun of us”, testified Bruno Vivien, retired from the metallurgy who came with his little bugle, to AFP.
READ ALSONîmes: a “casserolade” for the first anniversary of Macron’s re-electionOn the move in the Hérault, the ministers Gabriel Attal and Stanislas Guerini also did not escape a concert of saucepans on Tuesday evening in the town of Mauguio. Around thirty people, gathered under the flags of the CGT de l’Hérault and Solidaires Finances publiques unions, notably sang “We will go until withdrawal”, in reference to the recently adopted pension reform.
Coming to launch a campaign with French taxpayers on the use of their taxes, the Ministers of Public Accounts and the Civil Service were treated as “gravediggers” by the demonstrators present, massed behind metal barriers and surrounded by the forces of l ‘order.
2023-04-25 20:29:48
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