Biologists, whose profits have increased sharply with the COVVI-19 screening tests, dispute the amount of the savings requested in return.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
Judging “blocked dialogue” with the national health insurance fund, biology laboratories will stop on January 2 to feed the national file which allows the government to follow the evolution of the COVVI-19 epidemic , announce their unions in a press release sent on Saturday December 31 to the France-Presse agency (AFP).
“Patients will be able to continue to be tested in the laboratories, but the government will not receive any reasons,” they specify. “If that is not enough, we are considering a new national strike over several days and the total stop of COVID acts for an indefinite period. We would like to get there for access to the care of our patients, [it is [it is ] now for the government to take responsibility and not take the population hostage, “they say, speaking of a” black January to avoid dark years “.
Biologists, whose profits have increased sharply with COVID tests, dispute the amount of savings requested in return, in the coming years. A strike had already taken place in November for the same reason. If a compromise seems to be in sight for a budget puncture of around 250 million euros in 2023 (divided between COVVID tests and other examinations), as the government wishes, negotiations blocks with regard to the period 2024-2026 .
Social Security offers an envelope of 150 million over three years to repay “innovative acts” currently reserved for hospitals, without however specifying the amount of savings expected for other acts, referred to “signing a multi -year protocol Before the end of the first half “. However, biologists have already fixed their red line in terms of pricing: no more than 145 million euros per year. Going beyond “would lead to the closure of at least 400 proximity laboratories [and] the abolition of at least 10,000 qualified jobs”, they say.