Can the next day also concern medicine? Unions of liberal doctors, as well as the federation of private clinics ask the government to lift the "enlarged white plan", which has blocked surgical activity for two months, even if Olivier Véran assures on Monday that certain establishments "can reprogram operations" .
Introduced in mid-March in order to free up a maximum of resuscitation beds for coronavirus patients, the "enlarged white plan" is now a problem because it "slows down the reopening of operating theaters and endoscopy services," says the CSMF. Monday in a press release.
According to the first union of liberal doctors, the regional health agencies (ARS) "put forward a shortage" of certain drugs (curares, anesthetics) "to prevent the progressive resumption of the activity in the clinics".
"Ensure full resumption of care"
"The public authorities are paralyzed by the fear of lacking means in the event of a possible resumption" of the epidemic, the surgeons of the Bloc already said on Thursday, worrying about "diagnostic and therapeutic delays fraught with consequences" for patients. Denouncing the “deleterious effects” of the white plan, they urged the authorities to “put an end to this administrative inconsistency”.
Eleven organizations including the Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP) had in turn pointed to Friday the "contradiction" with the necessary "continuity of care and care of patients without Covid". To this end, "the public authorities must allow health professionals to ensure full resumption of care," they said.
The Minister of Health partially answered their request: in a statement, Olivier Véran affirms that "in the regions where the ARS consider that the virus circulates little, and according to the occupation of the resuscitation services and the available resources, establishments can reprogram operations ”. "The diagnoses and treatments must not be delayed," he adds, while stressing that "the presence of the virus on the territory requires us to remain very vigilant".
