The doctors want to freeze the salaries of the specialists to hire nurses

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The spokesperson for the Grouping of general practitioners for medicine is involved, Simon-Pierre Landry

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Tuesday, 27-feb-2018 19:30

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Tuesday, 27-feb-2018 19:33

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QUEBEC | The Grouping of general practitioners for medicine is involved (ROME) calls on the government Couillard to freeze the salaries of medical specialists in order to finance the hiring of nurses and orderlies.

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As to the salary of the general practitioners less than specialists, it would be annexed to inflation.

“Compensation medical takes up a significant portion of the resources newly available for a reinvestment in health”, explained the spokesman of the ROME, Simon-Pierre Landry.

“It is high time to reorient the ship”, he added.

The grouping of physicians proposed the establishment of a referendum electronics for probing physicians about the potential use of the funds obtained by the wage freeze for the hiring of employees in the network.

“ROME believes that a majority of doctors would prefer a reinvestment in services to patients to improve their conditions of exercise of the medicine”, also said the agency, by issuing a press release.

No question to cancel the agreement

The agreement reached between the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ) and the Quebec government raises a public outcry since the announcement, there are nearly three weeks.

Of passage in the county of Portneuf, on Tuesday, the prime minister Philippe Couillard has argued that there is “no new money” in this agreement. “It is the spreading of accumulated debts. And the only increase […] is less than inflation. In practice, it is a gel real,” he said.

Dr. Simon-Pierre Landry, however doesn’t hesitate to speak of “social crisis” if nothing is done.

“There are issues of health care financing. There are organisational issues in health care, he said in a press briefing. Then, if it does that just continue on with the agreements that have been made present, and with the reform Barette as it is done currently, it will just go less well.”

Philippe Couillard defended Tuesday his minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette, believing that “few ministers of Health in the past practically speaking, specifically, have had such good results for the patient.”