Europe 1 with AFP 1:44 p.m., January 5, 2023

While liberal doctors are called to take to the streets this Thursday afternoon in Paris to obtain a revaluation of the consultation, the government has said it is ready to accept their demands if they are "reasonable" and if "the needs of health of the French are filled".

The "Doctors for tomorrow" collective, supported by several unions (FMF, UFML, SML and Young Doctors), is expecting several thousand demonstrators in its procession, which must leave the Pantheon around 1:30 p.m. to reach the Ministry of Health, where a delegation will be received.

They claim in the first place the doubling of the basic price of the consultation, currently fixed at 25 euros.

Can the Minister of Health, François Braun, satisfy this request?

To calm the discontent, he was questioned about it this Thursday morning on France 2.

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A “give and take” situation

"I am ready to increase this consultation as soon as their health needs of the French are met. Every five years, there is what is called the conventional negotiation between the unions of doctors and the health insurance. Let this negotiation go all the way, until the end of February," he said.

"And on this win-win principle, that is to say okay, we increase the consultation, but I want the 650,000 French people who are chronically ill to have a doctor because they don't have one. currently. I want us to be able to have a doctor at night, on weekends. I want us to be able to have access to a doctor during the day. It's give and take, "added the Minister of Health.

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The protest movement was sharply criticized by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, who deemed it "really not responsible" because it increased "tensions on the hospital" in times of winter epidemics.

The central demand of the collective remains the doubling of the basic consultation rate to create a "shock of attractiveness" towards a city medicine in lack of arms, crushed by administrative tasks and which no longer appeals to young people.