More than 1,500 local elected officials call on MPs to vote for the regulation of doctors' establishment
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More than 1,500 local elected officials are calling on MPs to vote on the Garot bill to combat medical deserts on May 4, 2025. SYSPEO/SIPA
More than 1,500 local elected officials are calling on MPs to vote for the Garot bill to combat medical deserts, opposed by a section of the medical profession, highlighting the "strong expectations" of their fellow citizens, in a text published in "La Tribune dimanche" .
On Tuesday, several thousand people marched in France against the bill launched by Guillaume Garot (PS) and supported by a cross-party group (from LR to LFI) of more than 250 deputies, aimed at regulating the establishment of doctors . It stipulates in particular that in the areas with the highest density of doctors, practitioners will have to wait for a colleague to retire before being able to set up there.
But for the 1,513 local elected officials who signed a column in the weekly, "because it refuses to give up in the face of the emergency, because it enjoys broad support on the right, left and centre benches in Parliament, this text (bill, Editor's note) must continue its parliamentary journey."
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"Our fellow citizens have high expectations: let's not disappoint them," they plead. "As grassroots elected officials, committed to the Republican promise of health care for all, we call on all MPs to vote for this essential law," they urge.
Regulation already exists for other health professionsAccording to them, this proposed law "makes the regulation of the establishment of doctors, already applied to many health professions (...) the necessary lever of a policy to be carried out elsewhere on all fronts" .
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