Paris (AFP)
The federation of liberal doctors' associations SOS Médecins announced on Sunday a "total shutdown" of activity for 24 hours from Monday 8 am to "alert the French to the planned disappearance of the home visit".
"The 63 SOS Médecins associations are completely shutting down their activity" (home visit, consultation, teleconsultation regulation center), from 8 am Monday and until 8 am Tuesday, SOS Médecins indicated in a press release.
The federation had decided at the beginning of September to call its members to such a day of action in order to obtain an increase in the price of home visits, planning to reveal the date at the last moment to avoid that "the movement is killed in the egg "by early requisitions.
"For more than 15 years, the means allocated to home visits have been insufficient with regard to the needs of the French and the aging of the population," said SOS Médecins in its press release, noting by way of example that "the allowance of displacement of 10 euros for day visits has not changed for 15 years ".
"The main consequence of this devaluation of the visit is a growing disengagement of general practitioners from this practice", deplores the federation, for whom "the home visit is in danger".
The organization is very upset against the last agreement signed at the end of July by the unions of liberal doctors and the Health Insurance, which extends the "long visit" (70 euros) but only for the benefit of treating doctors who come to their own patients .
Created in 1966, SOS Médecins brings together 1,300 general practitioners, who carry out around 3 million home visits each year.
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