Review of the actions that the Ariège Pyrénées territorial professional health community (CPTS) will put in place by 2022.
The working groups are regarding to resume, the first meeting will take place on Tuesday and will focus on access to the attending physician, erected as a top priority. The time has now come for the implementation of actions in the territory. For some of them, part of the road has already been covered and their application is akin to a simple formality. More than a matter of days, therefore, before their realization, indicates Léna Delétang, CPTS Ariège-Pyrénées coordinator. “More than 11.4% of people aged over 16 do not have an attending physician and the situation will not improve since twelve general practitioners will retire in the next five years, so our first objective is it, improve access to an attending physician, a nurse or a physiotherapist following hospital treatment in Toulouse, Carcassonne, that the person, when returning to Ariège, has a course from which it no longer benefits today. “
Regarding domestic violence, the objective is to put “in pharmacies grids allowing the person to determine whether he is in a situation of danger or not. We had the idea of affixing these visuals on pouches that pharmacies give out when people make a purchase (protectometer). ”
Léna Delétang: “Someone who has suffered a stroke has to go to Carcassonne, which reduces their chances of recovery.”
Lagging behind in terms of breast cancer screening, the territory, with the help of GIP cancer, will call on “Mammobiles” which will travel through towns and villages. “Small buses where mammograms can be performed. The objectives must be reached by the end of the year so a lot of things will see the light of day. We will also introduce screening for frailty for the elderly: all health professionals, pharmacists, nurses, doctors, when they see someone in a fragile situation, will be able to indicate through simple grids, whether the person is fairly mobile, if it presents hearing or visual problems … A system that will allow you to measure at what stage of fragility it is in order to be able to refer it to a health professional corresponding to its needs if support is considered necessary. “
What regarding people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, whose numbers are increasing exponentially? “The CPTS has mainly focused on the frailty of the elderly and on the neurovascular sector because there is no longer a neurologist in Ariège,” specifies Léna Delétang. Today, someone who has suffered a stroke is forced to go to Carcassonne, which significantly reduces their chances of recovery. Alzheimer’s and diabetes are problems that come up often, it’s true, and that we can understand through healthy sport, we still talk regarding it. “
The neurovascular sector has been identified as a priority to fill the gaping void in this area. “We get in touch with the Toulouse and Carcassonne sectors as well as with CHAC professionals in order to build a support protocol and improve access to an attending physician following hospital care because today, when people return to Ariège, they have no follow-up, there is a break in the route through the territory which is quite worrying. The CPTS would like to encourage neurologists to settle in the region but is well aware that this requires long-term work. The Chiva trail will be explored. An ambition which supposes to work on the image of the department in order to reinforce its attractiveness.
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“In Couserans, the health project was launched for many years and then was put on hold, it seems that there is something new but there is still a lot of work, it is in the embryo stage. As for the country of Olmes and Lavelanet, they have not shown any particular desire for the moment, indicates Catherine Guintoli, president of the CPTS Ariège Pyrénées.