Over 1,500 local elected officials call on deputies to vote for the regulation of the installation of doctors

In the fight against medical deserts, more than 1,500 local elected officials call on deputies to vote the bill aimed at regulating the installation of doctors, in a text published in La Tribune on Sunday du 4 May.

The bill is criticized by part of the medical profession. Tuesday, several thousand people paraded, in France, against the text initiated by the deputy of Mayenne Guillaume Garot (Socialist Party) and supported by a Transpartisan group (from the Republicans to the Insoumise France) of more than 250 deputies. The bill provides in particular that, in the densest territories in doctors, practitioners will have to wait for a retirement of a colleague or a sister to settle there.

For local elected officials signatory to the gallery in the weekly, “Because he refuses to give up in the face of the emergency, because he benefits from large support on the benches on the right, the left and from the center to Parliament, this text must continue its parliamentary journey”.

“The expectation of our fellow citizens is strong: do not decade them”they argue. “Elected officials, attached to the republican promise of health for all, we call on all deputies to vote for this essential law”they urge.

Government counter-fire

According to them, this bill “Make the regulation of the installation of doctors, already applied for many health professions (…) The necessary lever of a policy to be carried out, moreover, on all fronts ”.

They cite in particular “Continuation of incentive devices”, “Improving working conditions in boarding schools”the “Development of city medicine internships” or “Supporting communities in their local access to care policies”.

The government, hostile to this bill, turned on a counter-fire, by presenting its own plan to combat medical deserts, better welcomed by liberal doctors.