What is the situation in Haute-Ariège?
She is improving near Ax-les-Thermes, where two doctors are expected to set up shop soon. One at the Ax nursing home, alongside Doctor Goubay, the other at Doctor Gay’s former practice. In Donezan the situation is stable and in Val-de-Sos, the multidisciplinary health center (MSP) works perfectly with 3 doctors. On the other hand, it will deteriorate in the health basin of the Luzenac-Les Cabannes sector.
The reasons ?
The last liberal doctor in exercise has just informed me that he will leave definitively on December 31, the medical office of Luzenac to settle in Bélesta. Even if it plans to follow its oldest and most isolated patients, the health pool in this sector will no longer have a doctor on January 1, 2023.
What measures to fight once morest desertification?
First, help for established doctors. We have done it for Luzenac, Ax, and are going to do it for Val-de-Sos (extension project). Then, and even if it is not part of its prerogatives, the CCHA has engaged in the search for doctors by commissioning a recruitment firm. I am also counting on the new public interest group (GIP), “My health, my Region” created by the Occitanie Region, a real tool for pooling resources to install salaried doctors in the health center of Les Cabannes. Furthermore, I would like to underline the administrative obstruction of the State to the recognition of the right to practice in France for foreign doctors.
Do you keep hope?
Sure. Even if it must take longer than I would like, all the actions we take alone or with our partners will bear fruit. We are also working on a territorial organization for January 1, 2023.
Which ?
With health professionals, we are working on setting up a remote and home telemedicine/teleconsultation platform. The objective is to allow, from January 2023, people in the territory without a doctor, access to a general practitioner. To this end, I will propose to the community council in December, our support for the financing of this project presented by the association of health professionals. As soon as it is validated, I will present the device. You see, we are doing everything we can to give everyone on the territory access to a range of quality and local care. This is why I will not allow it to be said or written that the elected officials and technicians of the CCHA do nothing and have done nothing to fight once morest medical desertification.
