Roanne’s GPs are taking action. 95% of the region’s doctors go on strike as of May 18. They denounce a crisis situation in this city.
The grumbling of the doctors against the law of health continues. 90 doctors from Roanne (Loire) and its surroundings go on strike for three days. From Monday, May 18, finding an open practice in the area will be difficult: 95% of general practitioners are part of this movement.
They denounce “the indifference and immobility of the political world” in the face of the situation in the Roanne region. In this pool of 180,000 inhabitants, general medicine is in crisis, explain the strikers in a letter to patients: “The renewal of general practitioners at the end of their careers and those victims of burnout is not guaranteed. “
The adoption of the Health Law on April 14 only crystallized the anger of doctors. “The considerable change in the administrative burden required of doctors will have a negative impact on their availability, and therefore on people’s access to healthcare,” warn the strikers. They are also protesting against a “trusteeship” of their profession.
The “Roanne spring”
The strike movement in Roanne is supported by several unions. The French Union for Free Medicine (UFML), which reproduces patient mail, “Calls today for its reproduction in other places on the territory. “The MG France union, which launched the first closings of cabinet last winter, also expresses its sympathy for” the Roanne spring. “
“The escheat in which both the State and the Health Insurance leave us is inadmissible and incomprehensible”, underlines the union in a press release. “MG France encourages general practitioners not to let it go, and suggests that they participate massively in this Roanne spring which starts from the base for an obvious reason: it is on the ground that the solutions to the problems are found”.
For their part, Roanne’s doctors are ready to show their teeth if they are not listened to. “Other actions, harsher if necessary, will be organized in the event of the silence of our elected officials,” they warn.
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