Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Doctors protest

Socialist Outlook no. 5, May 1997 · 107 words

was one of the slogans on the 20,000-strong demonstration by junior doctors through Paris on April 13.

Contingents of doctors - many of them on strike against the juppé government's controversial austerity reforms - came from all over the country, even from Corsica.

The French government's moves to impose strict cash limits on health - part of the measures to meet CArE the Maastricht convergence criteria for a single currency - are seen as an attack on the freedom of doctors to deliver quality care to patients.

The noisy, good-humoured and colourful demonstration was supported by contingents of health workers from two union confederations, FO and CGT.

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