French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced on Saturday a series of measures to address the crisis in community health care. The measures were welcomed by doctors' unions while some could raise eyebrows, such as a penalty of five euros for unattended medical appointments.
Other measures unveiled by the head of government, the possibility for pharmacists to dispense antibiotics for tonsillitis or cystitis, or even being able to go to the physiotherapist without having to go through a general practitioner. The doctors are rather divided, even very angry, like Jérôme Marty, the president of the union French Union for Free Medicine. According to him, everyone is suffering, all French people are having difficulties.