Former minister Catherine Fonck encountered a roadblock on her way to work at the hospital.

Not everything went according to plan this Monday morning for the former francophone Minister for Children and Health, Catherine Fonck. Returning to her work as a doctor after her political career, the member of Les Engagés is now working in a hospital.

Catherine Fonck encountered traffic problems on her way to work on Monday morning. On the day of the national strike, disruption was expected, but the former minister was confronted with a roadblock. ‘They refused to let me through despite my repeated requests to go to the dialysis unit at the hospital where the patients are waiting for me. Frankly, blocking health workers is unheard of’, she wrote on X this morning.

Angered by the situation, the member of Les Engagés called on Marie-Hélène Ska, General Secretary of the CSC. ‘Don't let this happen’, she concluded on her X (formerly Twitter) page.

by Leiegast

13 comments

  1. Well, it isn’t unheard of. People have died in Belgium because of strikers blocking medical staff and vehicles.

    A new rule must be put in place where at least one strip of a demonstration is kept free, perhaps with some form of movable obstacle, so that any time an ambulance or firetruck needs to pass the protestors can just let them through. Refusal to let urgent care staff pass should be punishable as attempted murder.

  2. Not the first time someone would die in the ambulance due to strikers

  3. I get why people want to strike but they shouldn’t disrupt other people that want to work or things like medical procedures or law enforcement.

  4. If someone dies because of this, the blockers should be charged for unintentional murder.

  5. public sector unions holding the country and the working people hostage don’t care about anyone else except themselves? surprising only to people who are either young fools or part of the gerontocracy they are defending

  6. That’s why you block buildings, not roads.

    If you’re blocking someone who needs to go to the hospital, I will force you out of the way by any means I got. Not doing so is endangering others, which is illegal, in my understanding of the law.

  7. I support the protests but like, killing people isn’t the way to go boys

  8. Vakbonden doen er toch ook alles aan, om zichzelf in de voeten te schieten.

  9. A centrist-right party, using a right politician and a right media to tell you why strikes are bad! (BTW she could totally use any other road that wasn’t blocked and still go to the hospital but you wouldn’t be mad if she did that and not her tweet).

    We are going to also adress the fact that Miss Fonck IS NOT the head of the service of the hospital she claims to work at and let’s take the fact that the employeer would tell the hospital staff to take every action possible to avoid any disturbings for the patient (rescheduling) as the strike was well long before announced…

    In the end, miss fonck failed to be responsible for “her” patients (patients of the hospital) and trying to blame the strike on the main road is just a pathetic excuse for failling in your responsibilities

  10. She was against cannabis legalisation/regulation deprivating citizens from medical cannabis and treating them like marginals that deserved to be punished from our public-fund expensive and over-crowded justice system…

    So I want to tell her now the leopard ate her face !

  11. Just so I can understand the situation properly were the roads that blocked her from getting to the hospital mentioned before the strike occurred that they would be blocked?

    If so I’d argue it was her fault as she could have avoided it by planning if not its kinda fucked up on the part of the protestors.

  12. No doctor or nurse should be blocked from attending on site. It is as simple as that.

    There are reasons you give way to ambulances and other emergency vehicles on the road.

    I hope the dialysis patients and other staff made it to the treatment unit. Because a lot of people on dialysis do not look as ill as they are, and skipping a single dialysis session increases your risk of mortality by [30%.](https://www.hey.nhs.uk/patient-leaflet/dialysis-non-attendance-advice-sheet/#:~:text=Skipping%201%20dialysis%20session%20a,someone%20who%20regularly%20attends%20dialysis)

    On a brighter note, if the consultant was significantly delayed – the treatment would still have been able to go ahead. The nurses would see to that.

    But it is incredibly frustrating for those who need their prescriptions and treatment plans altered, as well as those experiencing symptoms that need a doctor’s input to be managed accordingly.

  13. If strikers are really that worried about losing striking right, maybe they should stick to striking instead of blocking roads and companies. Both clearly not part of striking, as ruled multiple times by courts.

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