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Doctors Strike Today Against Healthcare Funding Reforms

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Doctors and dentists in Belgium are taking part in a one-day strike on Monday in protest against federal government reforms to healthcare spending. The Belgian Association of Medical Unions - ABSyM - has called the strike, which also extends to staff at health insurance firms (mutuelles). ABSyM...

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Brieuc Wathelet was the guest of Maxime Binet this Tuesday 8 July 2025 in the LN24 filterless coffee shop. The political coordinator at Solidaris went back to the doctor's strike and the health care reform wanted by Frank Vandenbroucke. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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CD&V chairman Sammy Mahdi is particularly critical of the health care reform of minister Frank Vandenbroucke. In a sharp interview, he lashes out at the socialist minister, who, according to him, is following his own course and ignoring the coalition agreement. "The decisions that Frank Vandenbroucke is taking are not decisions that we can agree with. They also go against the coalition agreement," says Mahdi. The Christian Democratic chairman po…

·Antwerp, Belgium
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Monday, July 7, 2025 - 21:18 Are doctors right to strike? Here's what Belgians think By RTL info with Loic Parmentier Belgian doctors were on strike this Monday, July 7th. They protest against the reform project of the Minister of Health, Frank Vandenbroucke. What do Belgians think of this strike? That's what the study office Cluster 17 sought to know. Here are the results of the survey. Reading Zen First major finding of this survey: 79% of par…

The Minister of Public Health Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit) has reopened the possibility of partial agreement for doctors and dentists. The cap on fee supplements and the possibility of withdrawing an Inami number in certain circumstances are, however, maintained with some modifications, is apparent from the latest version of the draft framework law on medical reform which Belga was able to consult. Last Thursday, a meeting was held between the …

10:22 Four out of ten doctors in hospitals, two out of ten general practitioners and also some dentists are going on strike on Monday for the first time in more than twenty years due to dissatisfaction with the reform plans...

·Belgium
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The CHC Health Group, which manages the new hospital in MontLégia, informs that most medical and paramedical consultations (kines...), examinations, non-emergency interventions were cancelled on Monday, July 7, as part of the mood movement that affects the health care sector. The patients concerned were contacted directly by telephone to reschedule their appointments as soon as possible. According to RTBF, approximately 90% of the doctors in the…

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