Medical deserts: regulation of doctors' establishments voted on in the National Assembly

The vote will undoubtedly have a thunderclap effect on the medical profession and beyond. The bill, sponsored by Guillaume Garot, the Socialist Party (PS) MP for Mayenne and co-signed by some 250 MPs from all walks of life (excluding the National Rally (RN), which provides for regulation of doctors' practice, was adopted on Wednesday, May 7, in a very sparsely populated Chamber. Despite the government's unfavorable opinion, it received, shortly after 11 p.m., 99 votes in favor, 9 against.

Of course, his parliamentary journey will continue, with an examination in the Senate planned for the autumn, but this is a first victory for the supporters of a constraint on the establishment of private doctors, at a time when medical deserts are worsening. "We have passed an important stage," welcomed Mr Garot, which should make it possible to "stop the worsening of inequalities" ; "when deserts advance, it is the Republic which retreats, we have put a little bit of the Republic back into our collective organization," he also affirmed.

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