Health bill: interns in the street on March 15

While the interns will begin an unlimited strike on January 29, the rag is still burning between the Ministry of Health and these future doctors. And the meeting Monday morning between Marisol Touraine and Mélanie Marquet, president of the Inter Syndicat National des Internes (ISNI) did not, it seems, calm things down. Moreover, in a Press release published this Tuesday, the unions of interns announce new actions to show their opposition to the bill of health.

Demonstration scheduled for March 15
The future doctors of ISNI and ISNCCA (1) first of all launched an appeal to all doctors for a mobilization on March 15, 2015 “ during a large national demonstration to denounce this bill and call for real consultation. “ The interns still have not digested the fact of having been dismissed by the minister from the four working groups with health professionals whose goal is to change the text before it goes to Parliament in spring 2015.

Interns are afraid for their training
Absent from the discussions, the interns therefore expressed serious doubts about the possibility of including their demands in the text of the law. On the generalized third-party payment for example, the ISNI and the ISNCCA ask that this device be withdrawn “ which has only one goal, that of allowing an invisible disengagement of health insurance in favor of private insurance. “

Regarding the organization of local care in the territories, the unions want to be withdrawn “ any mechanism aimed at giving the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) full powers in authorizations and renewals of activity, thus undermining the freedom of installation of young professionals. “
The ISNI and the ISNCCA are also opposed to the management of their internship by the local authority, and thus ask for the withdrawal of article 38 of the Health Law. “ which introduces the possibility for local authorities (regions, departments, municipalities, etc.) to intervene in the training of interns. “
Last wish of interns, “ the elimination of the concept of “substitute practitioner” which only makes entry into the public hospital career more precarious. “

Doctors’ unions in solidarity with interns
In reaction, the CSMF liberal doctors’ unions (2) and FMF (3) called on all practitioners to mobilize now to demonstrate in Paris on March 15, 2015 alongside young doctors, and join ISNI and ISNCCA, ” The French health system must evolve but not towards the one concocted by the government through this reform project “, conclude these unions.

(1) Inter National Syndicate of Heads of Clinics Assistant to City Hospitals of Factulé

(2) Confederation of French Medical Syndicates

(3) Federation of Doctors of France