Tension is mounting between young medical interns and Minister Marisol Touraine.
On January 26, the Minister received Mélanie Marquet, president of the Inter Syndicat national des internees (ISNI), to discuss the concerns of future doctors about the Health Bill. In vain it seems, since the unions of interns announced in a press release the resumption of opposition actions to the bill.
“We did not get anything,” protests Mélanie Marquet, interviewed by Le Quotidien du Médecin. “We therefore maintain our slogans of indefinite strike from January 29, and a large national demonstration on March 15 with the heads of clinics.” According to the president of the INSNI, the consultation with the minister gave rise to “no concrete promise, nothing written” about the demands.
In this context, the interns have therefore decided to organize a large national demonstration to “call for real consultation” on March 15. And from Thursday, January 29, future doctors will go on “indefinite strike city after city”. Unions of doctors Liberals have already indicated that they strongly encourage their practitioners to join the ranks of young interns.
Concerns about the training of future doctors
Among private practitioners as well as interns, the request to withdraw from the plan to generalize third-party payment(elimination of the advance of costs by the patient) is one of the main demands. For the unions, this measure is only intended “to allow an invisible disengagement of health insurance for the benefit of private insurance”.
But if the interns are worried, it is also because the Bill interferes with their training. They thus demand that be withdrawn “any mechanism aiming to give the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) full powers in authorizations and renewals of activity thus undermining the freedom of installation of young professionals”. The INSNI is opposed to the management of internships by the local authority and requests the withdrawal of article 38 of the Health Law “which introduces the possibility for local authorities (regions, departments, municipalities, …) to intervene in the training of interns. “
Finally, the interns want “the elimination of the concept of” replacement practitioner “which only makes entry into the public hospital career precarious. “
The interns did not appreciate having been dismissed by the minister from the four working groups whose aim is to change the text before it goes to Parliament next spring. They have now been invited to bring their contribution to the building, to review the contentious points.
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