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French taxi drivers protest against hospital transport service change

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STORY: French taxi drivers protest against hospital transport service change
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 2, 2024
DATELINE: Dec. 4, 2024
LENGTH: 0:01:40
LOCATION: LYON, France
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the protest
2. SOUNDBITE (French): ABDELATIF GRINE, President of "FTI69" taxi union
3. various of the protest

STORYLINE:

Taxi drivers in several major French cities Monday staged a "go-slow" protest against proposals to decrease payment for patient transport services.

Currently, patient transport fare is an important part of taxi drivers' income in France.

However, as part of a 2025 draft budget bill, the French government is seeking to decrease patient transport spending by 300 million euros.

Proposed changes also include requiring patients to share transport services with other patients.

SOUNDBITE (French): ABDELATIF GRINE, President of "FTI69" taxi union
"What I fear is the choice we have been given: to work at a discount and put our businesses in difficulty, or to treat our patients like parcels — to make them wait a very long time in a waiting room, no matter if there are three, four, five, six... up to eight of them in a shared taxi."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Lyon, France.
(XHTV)

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