The strike of liberal doctors in France has generated chaos in hospitals, where they converge three epidemics. Covid, flu and bronchiolitis, with overflowing guards.
SAMU and firefighters, who work in France as emergency doctors and paramedics, They are not enough to answer calls, as they denounced, under the dangerous emergency.
In the midst of a general practitioners’ strike, patients are forced to go to SAMU, which is already facing a triple epidemic and whose services are overburdened.
As hospitals have to juggle epidemics, staff shortages and year-end holidays, liberal doctors have gone on strike. Consequence: SAMU is overwhelmed with calls from patients, who traditionally turned to their doctors as a first resort.
On Monday, SAMU des Bouches-du-Rhône center 15 received more than 3,400 calls. A request too high for the center-right media. To the point that some patients have been forced to wait more than 45 minutes before being able to speak to a doctor on the phone.
SOS Medicine, private home service is also overflowing and cannot satisfy the questions. Patients have drifted to France before this forceful measure.
By asking for an increase in their consultations which have not increased since 2019, French general practitioners have adopted, for the second time in a month, measures of force, which will last until 2 January.
First the doctors had put a bracelet on his arm saying they were on strike but they were working. Now their offices are closed and they don’t even make home visits.
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Source: Clarin
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