"A endangerment of patients": in the Côtes-d'Armor, elected officials and patients are mobilizing to support a non-vaccinated doctor suspended

Liberal doctors, like all caregivers, had until October 15 to present a complete vaccine scheme against COVID.Otherwise, according to the law, the recalcitrants, are suspended.This is the case of Dr Françoise Van Dien, generalist in Pleudihen-sur-Rance in the Côtes-d'Armor, summoned by ARS to stop his activity on October 15.

Joined by "Le Quotidien", the doctor, installed for 22 years in the commune, explains "that she is not anti -vax"."My patients are monitored on the vaccine level," she asserts.I am 66 years old and I have been exercising for 40 years.I have seen epidemics and I do not deny the existence of the virus.But the measures taken by the government for caregivers are completely disproportionate ”.

At the beginning of October, the doctor had received a registered letter from the ARS suspension from 15, except to provide proof that she entered a vaccination process."Then I received a recommended from the Departmental Council of the Order that I do not intend to seek," she said.The general practitioner nevertheless agreed to stop her activity to see "what was going to happen".For her patients, she has "wedged" to "make people wait" but she specifies that she "would be over in the event of a vital emergency".

Put to danger

This activity stop was not to the taste of elected officials and inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area, a pool of 10,000 inhabitants."The doctor follows more than 1,500 patients who will find themselves without a doctor attending in his absence," said the mayor of La Pleudihen-sur-Rance, David Boixière, interviewed by France 3.In this commune of 3000 inhabitants, the multi -professional health center has so far housed four general practitioners, two physiothetes and two dentists.For two weeks, he had only left him left - another doctor being on sick leave - then now two, with the suspension of Dr Van Dien.Then the dispute is organized.

With four other mayors (Lanvallay, Pleudihen, Saint-Hélen and La Vicomté-sur-Rance), the councilor had written at ARS, a letter that has remained unanswered since.In addition, an online petition collected more than 3,700 signatures, to alert "on the endangerment of patients who would then find themselves without a doctor".

"We alert on the risk induced to have patients who are not neat or poorly neat causing increased solicitation of the emergency services which cannot face", can be read in this text where the population requires the maintenance in activity of DRVan Dien as well as all other doctors in the same situation.For the mayor, there is no need to procrastinate."A doctor who does not wish to be vaccinated is his choice, his decision," he said.Me, my mayor posture is to worry about what will happen tomorrow.And we have a real public health problem and medical desertification ”.

So to maintain the pressure, a demonstration is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday October 23 in Dinan."I will be present at this event to pay tribute to the inhabitants and mayors who organized it," adds Dr. Van Dien.Faced with medical scarcity, they have the question of supply of care ”.