" It is a scandal.
They are undressing Paul to dress Pierre.
This Monday morning, the anger of Jean-Paul Hamon, general practitioner based in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine) and honorary president of the Federation of Doctors of France, is at its peak.
Sunday evening, "at 10:06 p.m.", the general practitioner and his colleagues were notified by email of the impossibility of ordering doses of vaccine against Covid-19.
"For the week of March 8, the order will only be opened for the specific needs of pharmacies," indicates the Directorate General of Health (DGS) in an email addressed to general practitioners, also accessible on its site.
It will not be possible to take orders for doctors given the number of doses delivered by AstraZeneca (approximately 28,000 vials available to order).
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Doctors, who have been vaccinating in their offices since February 25, will therefore have to slow down in favor of pharmacists, including Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Friday the entry into the vaccine dance from March 15.
Monday morning, it is difficult for general medicine to wake up.
“The DGS-urgent message received by the doctors is unacceptable and must be denied by the Minister Olivier Véran, calls this Monday morning the Order of doctors on Twitter.
Doctors, driving forces behind the vaccination campaign among the population, must be assured of their supply of doses.
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"Even weeks doctors, odd weeks pharmacists?"
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“General practitioners have invested heavily in the coverage of vaccination.
In their offices, they vaccinated 200,000 people in five days during this first week.
In liberal vaccination centers, they were present to vaccinate this weekend.
Their vaccination appointment books are full for the next few weeks, ”depicts for his part MG France, the main union of general practitioners.
"What is the sick mind that makes this kind of decision," gets irritated by general practitioner Jérôme Marty in a video posted online.
You are going to have anger and a revolt from the doctors that you do not even measure, you will have to calm things down and calm them down immediately, ”he told the government.
I have a message for the DGS following its urgent circular tonight on #VaccinationCovid by our pharmacist colleagues and the announcement of the impossibility for doctors to order #vaccines next week !!!! # COVID19 pic. twitter.com/5PWhFkJVuL
- DrMartyUFML-S (@Drmartyufml) March 7, 2021
Beyond the lack of recognition deplored by practitioners, the announcement of the DGS arouses a logistical concern: redirecting the doses from the doctor's office to the pharmacy does not increase the number of potential vaccinees.
"It is not to multiply the vaccinators that it is necessary, it is to multiply the vaccines", annoyed in a press release published this Monday morning the Confederation of French medical unions (CSMF).
"When France receives enough vaccines, then it will be time to allow all health professionals to vaccinate," she adds.
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"Even weeks doctors, odd weeks pharmacists?"
What about weekends for nurses?
Will the short vacations be for midwives?
», Quips a particularly influential doctor on Twitter.
"We understood that bringing in our pharmacist colleagues was to speed up vaccination, that is to say that we were increasing the number of vaccination sites, among doctors, pharmacists, nurses (. ..) but not at one and not at the other ”, abounds in his video Jérôme Marty.
The DGS has all the same almost invented the alternating custody of vaccines: even weeks doctors, odd weeks pharmacists?
What about we for nurses?
Will the short vacations be for the Midwives?
pic.twitter.com/SM2H6Bx5ez
- The Doc (vaccinated PB 💉💉🦠) (@Le___Doc) March 8, 2021
For Jean-Paul Hamon, the news “comes at the worst time”.
“That it happens precisely this Sunday evening, after a weekend when the liberal doctors and nurses have scrambled to respond to the government's communication operation, is totally outrageous, says the town doctor.
The anger is immense.
“During this weekend, thought by the executive as a highlight of the French vaccination campaign, reinforced vaccination tests allowed some 585,000 people to receive an injection.
A call for a boycott of vaccinodromes
Continue the vaccination campaign as if nothing had happened?
The most resilient GPs will live with it, but on condition that they have the right doses.
“This week we will have them - at least I hope -, but next week I do not know how we will do, anticipates Jean-Paul Hamon.
We're going to have to cancel the appointments.
Like his colleagues, the practitioner receives enough to inoculate 30 vaccines per week.
“If I have to cancel the 30 appointments I have made, I will simply stop vaccinating.
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“In two Sundays, I vaccinated 154 of my patients, a good part of the most at risk.
I have quite a bit left, but unfortunately this week I will have to stop, ”said Bertrand Legrand, a general practitioner based in Tourcoing, author of a Journal of a doctor at the time of the coronavirus.
No doses in the office?
No doctor at the vaccinodromes?
Instructions are given on Monday by several doctors to ease off the vaccine acceleration pedal hoped for by the government as long as they are not provided with vaccines.
“I call on my colleagues to suspend their participation in vaccinodromes until the doses are returned to our practices!
», Reacts Bertrand Legrand.
#DGS mail at 11pm, general practitioners who, like we prioritize our patients, are deprived of doses for a policy unworthy of "first come first served"
I call on my colleagues to suspend their participation in vaccinodromes until the doses are returned to our practices !
pic.twitter.com/JFALdJRrtB
- Dr Legrand Bertrand (@bdLegrand) March 8, 2021
Doctors can count on the support of certain pharmacists.
“We will vaccinate together, not one after the other.
We refuse the 1 + 1 = 1 invented by the DGS!
One of them launches.
“Dear pharmacist colleagues, I am sorry for you as, probably, you are sorry for us, tweets on Monday a doctor who calls for the union of the two professions.
Let's talk to prevent this absolute mess from falling on us ”.
Pharmacists refuse to be assigned doses at the expense of MG colleagues!
We will vaccinate together, not one after the other.
We refuse the 1 + 1 = 1 invented by the DGS!
Where are the doses?
It's ubiquitous!
https://t.co/92LCJSHJTf
- FAbZ 💉💉🦠 (@Doctorfabz) March 7, 2021
Jérôme Salomon's resignation demanded
"We will take the forks out," warns Jean-Paul Hamon, whose anger does not subside over the discussion on Monday.
In this fiery sling, the forks also claim the head of the Directorate General of Health.
“We have to stop making fun of us.
We are asking for the resignation of Jérôme Salomon (Editor's note, the Director General of Health) who is incapable, ”continues Jean-Paul Hamon.
This resignation, mentioned by some doctors and union representatives in the sector under the hashtag # SalomonDémission on Twitter, is also desired by MG France, who let it be known on Monday in a press release.
