In the midst of an emergency crisis, general practitioners have demonstrated to bring a claim to be doubled the price of the consultation of 25 to 50 euros – a requirement which makes modest the requests for wage revaluation expressed in many sectors during the ‘year 2022.
Far from us the idea of condemning any debate on the level of the remuneration of general practitioners. However, with regard to their current income level – they belong to 10 % of the wealthiest French – and taking into account the state in which our care system is found, these professionals will only be audible if they agree to debate counterparts likely to reduce the sanitary fracture that tears our country.
Since 2017, senior territorial civil servants, proximity actors immersed in the heart of the life of the French, alert to the unbearable character of inequalities suffered by our fellow citizens in this area. Indeed, according to Study published on November 7, 2022, by UFC-Que Choisir on the French sanitary fracture, almost 23.5 % of patients live in a so-called “difficult access” area, not having access to a General practitioner less than thirty minutes from their home.
a form of humiliating downgrading
According to social security figures, the average density of general practitioners is 150 per 100,000 inhabitants, oscillating between 266 generalists per 100,000 inhabitants in Hautes-Alpes, where it is the highest, less than 100 Doctors for 100,000 inhabitants in Eure, Seine-et-Marne and Eure-et-Loir, departments where it is the weakest in metropolitan territory.
As for overseas, the density in Mayotte is only 49 general practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants. The situation is even more alarming for specialized medicine, where geographic fracture and financial fracture are combined. Still according to the UFC-Que study aforementioned, seven out of ten patients resident more than forty-five minutes of a gynecologist categorized sector 1, that is to say not invoicing a fee. >
But beyond the figures, the gap between the legitimate emergency feeling of people living in a medical desert and the long time of the proposed measures marks a form of humiliating downgrading and feeds the theses of public impotence . When one is an elderly person, bedridden or fragile health, that the tomorrows are by definition uncertain, it is not possible to be said that solutions will be found in several years.
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