doctors plan to use pressure means to protest against the Legault government’s decision to impose a new performance -based remuneration mode.
In a charge against the back of the train against the new bill of minister Christian Dubé, the president of the Federation of Doctors Specialists accused the Legault government of “looking for the fight” to overshadow its failures.
“We are in front of a political show, before a minister who tables a bill because he is drowning, because currently the resources he has promised to us are not there,” railed Dr. Vincent Oliva. We do not have a operating room, we have no external clinic, we have no secretary, there is no computer, the infrastructures are crumbling, our hospitals are old, there are bats, flies in operating rooms! “
The “same style” as Gaétan Barrette
According to the president of specialists, the Minister of Health is torpedoing their negotiations with bills that flout their rights. Dr. Oliva even compares his “style” with that of the former liberal minister Gaétan Barrette.
He believes that Quebec cannot thus impose a new method of remuneration linking 25% of income to achieve performance indicators regarding surgeries, while specialist doctors have the possibility of doing the required operation and hospitalizing patients for lack of staff. Operating blocks are only open three days a week in certain corners of the province for lack of nurses.
-“I’m ready to talk about performance, but they are performing, will they be able to give us tools?” Has the president of the FMSQ. Should we link part of the remuneration of the Minister of Health in relation to the achievement of these objectives? These stories are played out. ”
No magic
family doctors are not much more tender towards the plan of Christian Dubé, who will have to make 18 million appointments per year to achieve their performance goals. The Federation of Omnipractians of Quebec (FMOQ) does not exclude it either means of pressure, which would not however affect services to the population.
“The fundamental problem is a shortage of more than 2,000 family physicians and the need to add other health professionals to support doctors. A bill will not magically create thousands of new family doctors. He will not settle the absence of professional resources to support them, “said the union of generalists.
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