A wide offer
“In medicine, in 2022, we carried out 1,614 consultations thanks to our partner doctors and we offer consultations in addictology, screening, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hepatology, arterial hypertension, oncology, bone densitometry, vascular pathology and rheumatology, a dense offer which over the years has become denser”, notes Ms. Gomez, while thanking Professor Laroche who came to register, in addition to Dr. Hacène and Monod, at the bone densitometry level. “In terms of surgery, the offer has also increased with the arrival of new practitioners and midwives for gynecological surgery, trauma surgery, orthopedics, visceral and digestive surgery, proctology and bariatric surgery that we hope to be able to develop with the Carcassonne hospital center and we have, in 2022, exceeded 1,000 consultations on these specialties.
Woman-child center
The Chaurien hospital center, on this pole, has a gynecological and obstetrics offer, carries out voluntary terminations of pregnancy, medical abortions and hosts maternal and child protection, the family planning center and the perinatal center. “We had this label at the level of our local hospital”.
Gerontology
Gerontology is one of the specialties of the Chaurien hospital which offers gerontological, memory and neuropsychology consultations.
Imaging
Another strong pole, imaging, radiology, with nearly 40,000 acts last year, in terms of scanner, mammography, ultrasound, radiology, echo doppler with an ambitious project, the development of echocardiography which will enrich supply in the coming year.
Remember, moreover, that when he came this Thursday, Didier Jaffre, director general of the Regional Health Agency, announced that the hospital of Castelnaudary will be equipped with an MRI (read our edition yesterday).
Good news
In terms of good news… “All these cooperations, we still want to develop them and we are going to welcome, in partnership with the city, an ophthalmologist who will have liberal and hospital consultations and will carry out intravitreal injections in our walls from the month of March. We are also in the process of organizing consultations with a practitioner and liberal doctor at the level of angiology and perhaps wounds and healings. It is a request and a partnership that we would like very much with the hospital center of Carcassonne”.
Needs
And the person in charge of underlining an expectation at the level of anesthesia. “Given the development of the various consultations, many people in the Chaurien basin would like consultations with an anesthetist in order to be involved in other establishments followingwards. The same applies to dermatology and paediatrics”.
Cardiology
Cardiac pathologies are the specialty of Professors Galinier, Amar and Dr. Delasnerie who, since September, have been providing consultations here. “When the proposal was made to us, we had a quick response because the project was very ambitious but also very attractive”, says Professor Amar. “Seeing someone in consultation is our everyday job, but the challenge, when you are part of a territorial team, is to be part of the long term and set up a project that will serve the Chauriens. “. “Our presence here is intended as a response to the crisis in cardiology in Occitania with a reduction in the supply of care and we have created a territorial team at the Toulouse University Hospital which has recently been working in Auch, Cahors, at Chiva in Foix. , in Lavaur, in Castelnaudary. Each of us has a sponsorship at the level of each center and Jacques Amar is the sponsor of Castelnaudary. He is particularly involved in developing the team which is structured. We try, each time, to have an advanced practice nurse who assists us since chronic pathologies, heart failure, – my field, arterial hypertension, – that of Professor Amar, lend themselves particularly well to this sharing of experiences between doctors and nurses. think that we are going to do great things, here, in Castelnaudary”, indicates Professor Galinier.
