Frédéric Michel, edited by Manon Fossat 1:49 p.m., September 27, 2021

Doctors from SOS Médecins will not come on Monday until 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

They demand that the 1,300 doctors of the 63 associations of which they belong to access salary increases, as during the health crisis.

In Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël in particular, the risk is indeed to see this practice die out because the volunteers are fewer and fewer.

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Impossible to reach the doctors of SOS Médecins on Monday.

The federation of liberal doctors' associations has been "totally shut down" for 24 hours since 8 am this morning in order to "alert the French to the planned disappearance of the home visit".

In Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël, in the South, there are no home visits planned, as everywhere in France.

Because the discomfort is very deep. 

A revaluation as during the health crisis

The association SOS Médecins indeed denounces the contempt of the public authorities.

The conventional rate no longer corresponds to the commitment of these men and women who have made the choice of emergency at home, day or night.

This is explained by Dr Raphaël Gable, who chairs the local structure of the association.

"From 8 am to 8 pm on weekdays, it's 35 euros. And when you remove the charges, there isn't much left. So you need a revaluation to the tune of 57.60 euros, as was the case during the health crisis ", he pleads.

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Especially since these interventions at home are generally longer than a classic consultation, and more technical. Practitioners therefore logically see fewer patients. And it is the economic model of the SOS Médecins association which is in danger today. "In the medium to long term, it is a practice that will die if nothing is done, because we can no longer find doctors who want to do this job, who want to make home visits", continues Raphaël Gable.

According to him, the overwhelmed attending physicians reduce or stop their visitation acts, because of their too many consultations.

"There are a whole bunch of people, such as isolated elderly people, single mothers or people with disabilities, who have no other choice to see a doctor than to see us. move by ambulance, which is still a paradox, "insists the doctor.

In Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël precisely, out of ten practitioners of the SOS Médecins association, four changed activity at the end of the year.

And only one recruit has been registered so far.