While more than 10 million French people do not have a doctor, the deputies are debating this Monday, June 12, a bill on access to care. The socialist deputy of Mayenne, Guillaume Garot, will table an amendment on the regulation of the installation of doctors.
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“Our health cannot depend on our postal code”, estimates the deputy (PS) of Mayenne Guillaume Garot. He was a guest of the program Ma France on France Bleu this Monday. He will drop a “transpartisan amendment” on the regulation of the installation of doctors.
This week, discussions in the National Assembly open on a bill on access to care. More than 10 million French people do not have a general practitioner and encounter difficulties in obtaining treatment. The proposed law provides, among other things, for all doctors to be on duty, a ban on temporary medical work at the start of their career and automatic attachment to a community of caregivers.
A tour of France on the health bill
Guillaume Garot, he completes his tour of France with a “transpartisan group of deputies”, to take stock of the health divide. He has already done 15 stages throughout France and sees “a feeling of urgency and each time this feeling of abandonment which wins over many French people who tell us ‘what does the Republic do for us?’ Today, the Republican promise of equal access to care is seriously undermined”he laments.
The elected pleads with this transpartisan group for a regulation of the installation of doctors. “We have not tried everything against medical desertification and what we are doing is to regulate the installation of our doctors”. He will therefore deposit with this group a “transpartisan amendment” on the regulation of the installation: “It’s not a logic of appointment or assignment, it’s the idea of saying ‘don’t go and settle where there are enough of your colleagues, like on the Basque coast or the Côte d’ Azur’, it’s not quite the same thing”he explains. “Regulation is a lever that we have not used so far. I understand that it may scare some doctors, but there is a real urgency today”.
Regulation for doctors, comparable to that for pharmacists and nurses
Regulation exists for other health professionals: “Pharmacists, physiotherapists, nurses have a regulation. So what we propose is a regulation that is comparable and discussed with our doctors, but it is important that the legislator, that is to say the Republic seizes on the subject and says ‘we will do everything to restore this equality between the French'”concludes the deputy of Mayenne. “Our health cannot depend on our postal code”.