"Anger" is mounting among general practitioners, warned Jacques Battistoni, president of MG France, this Thursday at a press conference.
Two of the main liberal doctors' unions denounced this Thursday the difficulties encountered with the public authorities on the ground to open vaccination centers and obtain the doses of the precious remedy against Covid-19.
"We do not give the means to operate at the liberal vaccination centers" to administer the vaccine against Covid-19, said Jacques Battistoni, testimonies in support.
"We do not have authorizations easily, nor vaccine allocations, which we must negotiate," he said, criticizing a difference in treatment with the hospital.
“We are seeing a sort of refocusing on hospitals”, which “suspiciously” concentrate three quarters of the vaccination centers open to date.
"Bringing the vaccine closer to the patients"
"It makes it possible to increase the figures" of vaccination more quickly, but "it will be more difficult to get people over 75 years old near their homes," he warned.
Jacques Battistoni pleaded for "to bring the vaccine closer to the patients", with "a distance which must be as short as possible".
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He stressed that at least 70% of general practitioners "are ready to vaccinate themselves", according to a survey carried out last week among 2,350 practitioners.
"We must accelerate", also estimated Jean-Paul Ortiz, president of the CSMF, the first union among liberal doctors, who "has the impression that the administration is entangled in its heaviness".
“We used a sixth of the vaccines delivered by Pfizer,” or just under 250,000 people out of about 1.5 million doses received, he said.
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"He said, adding that" every day lost has catastrophic impacts from a health and economic point of view.
This should in particular make it possible "for all caregivers to be vaccinated as soon as possible, and not just those over the age of 50".
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"The country must do everything to preserve its caregivers who are at the front", he justified, in particular for doctors, whose vaccination "serves as an example" for nurses and nursing assistants in whom "l 'membership is much less massive'.
