2024-07-02 12:00:18
“Ah, health… do you have the impression that politicians are talking regarding this issue? I mean, are they really talking regarding it to find solutions and not just to attract votes? » Alan (whose name, like that of all the patients mentioned, is a pseudonym), a recently retired bus driver, was one of the patients following each other in the waiting room of the Medical-Surgical Consultation Center on this Thursday in June. Ressel (Ardennes region) has 7,500 inhabitants just a few days away from the first round of legislative elections.
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and « patient patient », As he puts it: His pulmonologist has been following him here for eight years, and he has made a habit of scheduling his next appointment as soon as he leaves the consulting room, “From one year to the next.” After suffering a heart attack, I had to wait six months to see a cardiologist in Charleville-Mézières, some 50 kilometers away. “Small alert”, taught him a lesson. Today’s difficulties in accessing health care affect both urban and rural areas. However, in small towns and rural areas, the concerns are more acute. That was a theme when it came time to vote.
Around 10 a.m., there were regarding 10 patients waiting for consultation, some of them pulmonologists and some of them urologists. They agree with two observations: ” Chance” they must be followed “A place close to them”, At the center, specialist doctors from Reims are available every week, saving them an 80-kilometre round trip. besides “Fear” This situation will not last and Resère, like other neighboring communities in the Ardennes or the Aisne, will not in turn become a “medical desert”.
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“We hear the term ‘medical desert’ everywhere, Alan continued, But I don’t see any politician who dares to say that we need to distribute doctors better, more or less everywhere… at least the youngest ones! » Head of state Emmanuel Macron floated the idea when he was running for re-election in 2022, but has not returned to regulating health care facilities since. The National Rally (RN) also distanced itself from the measure, while claiming it hoped “Agree” Establish a team of rural doctors. Only the New Popular Front included regulation in its legislative election program and committed to including it in future legislative election programs. “Big Health Law”.
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However, it is the opposite logic – not the limitations of the installation, but the volunteering of health professionals – that makes Reser’s office a success, with around fifteen experts coming regularly to provide so-called “consultations”. . In other words, outside their usual scope of practice.
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