French medics warn health service is on brink of collapse
(The Guardian France)

Doctors and nurses protest outside the French health ministry amid strikes at dozens of hospitals Emergency room doctors and nurses have protested outside the French health ministry amid strikes at dozens of hospitals across the country as medics warned that budget cuts were leading France´s world-class health system to the brink of collapse and putting patients´ lives at risk.In the past three months, over 50 hospital emergency rooms across France have held strike action with doctors and health workers complaining of funding cuts, a government reduction in the number of beds and a serious lack of medical staff leading to dire working conditions for emergency room staff. Related: Notre Dame is becoming a symbol of Macron´s gung-ho presidency | Pauline Bock Continue reading...