Drôme: An emergency service forced to close for three weeks in August

" Interim doctors boycott more or less public hospitals, believing that their salary level is now capped is not enough ", explains Jean-Pierre Coulier in a video interview at the Dauphiné Libéré broadcast Friday , confirming information from the regional press.

" It is a problem of medical demography " and the "f ermeture is transient ", wants to rebadure the director. The Saint-Vallier emergencies were already closed at night in July, for the same reasons.

During the complete closure of the service in August, the vital emergencies will be dealt with by the 15, the others by the emergencies of Romans- sur-Isère, the other site of the Drôme Nord Hospitals.

A decree of the Ministry of Health now supervises the incomes of the substitute doctors, qualified for some of "mercenaries" by the minister Agnès Buzyn.
" We also face mercenaries today, who are doctors (…) who work by the day, sometimes paid 2,000 euros a day and who are now partly responsible for the deficit of small hospitals peripherals ", she declared at the beginning of July.

Created at the end of March, the National Union of Alternative Physicians (SNMRH) called on temporary workers to "boycott" public hospitals this summer, challenging the ceiling on their salaries to 1,404.05 euros gross for a 24-hour guard this year. 19659002] This ceiling must be lowered to 1,287.05 euros in 2019, then 1,170.04 euros in 2020.