The Omicron variant continues to decimate businesses, schools and other public services while general practitioners are crumbling under the stain and the excess paperwork linked to Covid.
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“Huge workloads, we’re used to them. But through this pandemic, we go far beyond the medical framework. We treat, we do preventive medicine, but we are also drowning under the red tape and computerization all the way. I sometimes had to redo medical certificates three times on the pretext that they did not comply with the standards of the mutual insurance company, the employer… During this pandemic, we were also made to play the transmission belts with the patient. We were supposed to inform them about the coronavirus, but this information, we did not have it because it was not distilled directly to the general practitioners ”, regrets doctor Marc Demeulemeester, installed in Gozée.
New “practices” have also emerged during this pandemic. Like teleconsultation, prescriptions or certificates by email or internet.
►► “This generated a catastrophic overload of work”, insists Doctor Demeulemeester.
►► Same observation in Jumet: from morning to evening, Dr. Pierre Bets continues visits and consultations.
►► And it’s been like that for almost two years.
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