By demanding Tuesday "an obligation of participation of all practitioners" to the medical guards, the president of the FHF, Frédéric Valletoux, said he expected to receive a volley of green wood.
Of which note: the seven representative unions of liberal doctors - general practitioners and specialists - denounced Thursday in a joint press release remarks "between lies and slippages", calling on the leader of public hospitals to look at "the truth of the figures".
Evening (until midnight) and weekend call duty was in fact provided at more than 95% in 2021, according to the latest report from the Order of Physicians on the "permanence of care".
The same document, however, confirms the decline in volunteering among GPs, less than 40% of whom signed up for at least one call last year, as Mr. Valletoux did not fail to point out.
A "unnecessarily divisive" reminder, which demonstrates "the latter's glaring ignorance and contempt" for liberal doctors, replied in another press release on Wednesday the Conference of their regional unions (URPS), managed by the same unions.
"I expected better from him," for his part regretted Franck Devulder, during a press conference Thursday.
The president of the first union of the profession (CSMF) said he was unfavorable to an obligation "on an individual basis", but not collectively "on the scale of the territories", on condition of a "boost" to "remunerate properly" the guards.
This revaluation is even "extremely urgent", while more and more hospitals are forced to restrict access, or even close their emergency services punctually, he added, being surprised "at the wait-and-see attitude of the government on such a hot subject, just a few weeks away from the summer holidays".
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