Gabriel Attal’s announcements “demagogic” and “inappropriate”, according to the honorary president of the Federation of Doctors of France

After Gabriel Attal’s announcements concerning health during his general policy speech, Jean-Paul Hamon, general practitioner, honorary president of the Federation of Doctors of France, guest of 12/13 info, Wednesday January 31, judges that the Prime Minister’s words are “demagogic” And “misfits“According to him, the doctors recruited abroad to come to France will come from the Maghreb and black Africa, countries”who are terribly short of doctors“.

He asks for more resources

“Ensuring that young doctors who are trained in France set up in private practice to avoid and shorten hospitalizations, that’s what we would have liked to hear“, explains Jean-Paul Hamon. For the honorary president of doctors of France, the obligation of on-call duty is not a solution. He would like more budget in on-call medical homes. “With an on-call medical center, we avoid 10,000 trips to the emergency room per year“, explains the general practitioner.

“We lack doctors, doctors already work a lot, we are going to impose obligations on them when we should be encouraging”, he adds. Finally, Jean-Paul Hamon says to himself “doubtful” on charging patients who do not keep their doctor’s appointment.