The MG France general practitioner union strongly criticized the authorities' strategy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
"There is no strategy for the start of the school year. We need a precise framework, we need specific recommendations," urged Jacques Battistoni, president of MG France.
The union of general practitioners MG France denounced Thursday the lack of strategy in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic and urgently calls for a framework and specific recommendations.
"There is no strategy for the start of the school year. We need a precise framework, we need specific recommendations" benefiting from the approval of the health authorities, urged Jacques Battistoni, president of MG France during a press videoconference.
"We are asking for them urgently. We need them and we need them quickly," he insisted.
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According to the union, the list of unanswered questions is long: should people at risk practice partial confinement, total confinement?
Should GPs receive all the little ones with a runny nose?
Even if they don't have a fever?
Should we test them?
Starting at what age ?
...
"General practitioners want to say too much is too much, it cannot go on any longer"
MG France calls in particular for a "clear, coherent strategy" for the use of tests.
"The government's strategy remains to this day inaudible, incomprehensible," notes Jacques Battistoni.
"In the recommendations that we ask for, things come under general medicine but others under administrative powers", he notes, finding late on Wednesday the announcement of the introduction of partial unemployment for forced employees to keep their children.
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Still based on recommendations established in the spring and now outdated, "general practitioners want to say too much is too much, it cannot go on any longer," added Jacques Battistoni.
MG France is also demanding that telephone consultations be reimbursed again and that people at risk be offered a preventive consultation, somewhat on the model of the care voucher sent by Health Insurance for vaccination against influenza.