Overview
- Doctors stage a Paris demonstration on day six of a 10‑day national strike over measures they say erode professional autonomy.
- Assurance maladie data show activity down 19% for general practitioners and 12% for specialists as measured by electronic claims on Tuesday.
- Emergency departments and SAMU report heavy pressure during a severe flu season, with Paris’s Saint-Antoine logging roughly 40% more visits and several hospitals activating contingency plans.
- Health Minister Stéphanie Rist invited unions to meet Saturday and pledged to relaunch convention talks, but the intersyndicale refused and is seeking a meeting with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
- The protest targets remaining provisions such as possible unilateral tariff-setting and a shorter initial sick-leave cap, while unions warn that private clinics will reduce activity, with one industry group estimating 80% of operating theaters shut this weekend.