The French head of state continued his tour of France on Tuesday April 25 with a stopover in Loir-et-Cher on the theme of health. He was expected by several hundred demonstrators opposed to the pension reform, who welcomed him with a concert of pans, as is now the custom. Came to visit a nursing home, Emmanuel Macron did not make a specific announcement but was content to defend his health plan.

No walkabout this time: the Head of State seems to have given up on going to meet people gathered near the nursing home he had just visited, while insults and boos were shouting at him. He left in procession in his vehicle and had to content himself with greeting a few onlookers at the edge of a field when he got back into his helicopter.

No announcement either: the president essentially defended the measures presented at the beginning of the year to stem an “unending crisis” of the health system. A system that arrives “at the end of a model”, he explained during an exchange with elected officials and caregivers at the multidisciplinary university health center in Vendôme, which he erected as an “ideal-type” what he wants to do in particular to fight against medical deserts.

“The goal is to continue what has been started,” he said, while stressing that training more doctors would take years to show results. Priority therefore remains given to “delegations of acts” to allow nurses, midwives, pharmacists, orthoptists and physiotherapists to perform “acts which are today performed by a doctor”. This should allow practitioners to “take more patients”, starting with the “600,000 to 700,000” chronically ill “who have no attending physician” and to whom he has promised a solution by the end of the year. ‘year.

We need to have “the right incentives at the national level and after that we leave more freedom at the territorial level”, he pleaded with journalists. Returning to the field last week after the promulgation of his still contested pension reform, the president gave himself “one hundred days” to relaunch his second five-year term. Its Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is due to present the government’s roadmap on Wednesday to continue to move forward despite the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly.

Already heckled in Alsace and Hérault, Emmanuel Macron was received in Vendôme by a concert of pans from demonstrators, whose noise he could hear despite the distance. The neighborhood had been cordoned off by an important security device, but several hundred protesters of the retirement at 64 years old, equipped with saucepans, cans and trumpets, invaded a railway line or joined a police roadblock to get closer to the health home.

“It’s to wake up our president, so that he stops making fun of us,” testified Bruno Vivien, a retired metallurgist who came with his little bugler, to AFP.

Coming to launch a campaign with French taxpayers on the use of their taxes, the Ministers of Public Accounts and the Civil Service were called “gravediggers” by the demonstrators present, massed behind metal barriers and framed by the forces of the army. ‘order.