Mathieu Prix launched an online petition. This Parisian general practitioner is protesting against the new health insurance reform and the deterioration of the working conditions of doctors on call.
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“I am a general practitioner in Paris and I also work night and weekend shifts in an on-call medical center.“, writes Dr Mathieu Prix in the introduction to his petition on Change.org. Last October, he launched an appeal to “save on-call medical homes”. These are medical establishments which welcome patients when the GP offices or medical centers are closed.This could be weekends, nights or public holidays.”specifies the doctor.
“This avoids going to the emergency room or makes it possible to find a doctor when patients have no other solutions“, continues the health professional.
According to the doctor who works in an on-call medical center in the 19th arrondissement on weekends, patients most often consult the on-call doctors to “pathologies such as the flu, superficial wounds or a sprained ankle. It is not great medicine but it is essential for patients. It allows them to avoid more serious situations“.
In its sights, the new health insurance convention which came into force on December 22. Before this reform, doctors in on-call medical centers received an increase of 19.06 euros on weekends and public holidays or 35 euros for a consultation after 8 p.m. “Now this increase falls to 5 euros, a reduction of 75 to 85%“, regrets Mathieu Prix.
He fears that these new prices will force many establishments to close their doors. “The increase is a way to compensate for the arduousness of working at night or on weekends. If it drops to 5 euros, colleagues will no longer come and on-call medical centers will only be able to open a few days a week. This will undoubtedly lead to their closure. he explains.
Ultimately, these closures “will deprive people who need it of care. This will also create a national medical desert and will bring people back to emergency rooms which are already full. deplores the doctor. Finally, he fears that these potential closures will cost patients and social security more money.
Addressed to the Ministry of Health, the CPAM and the ARS, the petition was created to “ask these authorities to support doctors whose working conditions are already very complicated”according to its creator. “A doctor sleeps poorly, works 70 hours a week, suffers from every avoidable death, especially when it is due to the deficiencies of our healthcare system“, writes Mathieu Prix in his petition which has more than 60,000 signatures this Friday. The general practitioner wants the authorities to “realize the importance of our work, the vital aspect of what we do for our patients”.
In response to this petition, the ARS Île-de-France indicates that it has started, in conjunction with the CPAM and all those involved in outpatient care, including on-call doctors, a cycle of meetings from December 19. These meetings aim to “put in place the organization adapted to the framework newly defined by the medical convention”according to the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency. According to the ARS, Paris has on-call medical centers and 8 fixed on-call points. According to Mathieu Prix, Parisian on-call medical homes welcome 35,000 patients per year.
