About fifty French deputies are due to table a bill today in the National Assembly, to fight against medical deserts. At the initiative, the deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine Thierry Benoit. Among the various points, one of them is already reacting. Parliamentarians want to force young doctors to work for three years in the least covered areas. “Today, the installation of pharmacies is regulated and what I propose is regulation. I would say that in matters of city medicine, as much freedom as possible, as much regulation as necessary“, explains the UDI deputy of Fougères, guest of France Bleu Armorique.
“For twenty years, we have amplified incentive measures: installation bonuses of 50,000 euros, tax exemption in rural revitalization areas for eight years, setting up of professional health projects, multidisciplinary health centers, local health and telemedicine contracts. We tried everything and the situation is getting worse by the day“, replied the elected to doctors who already oppose his proposal.
one cannot be a representative of the nation, see that the incentives are no longer sufficient, without making new proposals
Forcing young doctors to go to regions they do not know, where they do not wish to live, it is a sacrifice recognizes the deputy, while these practitioners already have ten years of studies behind. “At the same time, the studies of doctors, and in particular of interns, must be done with less pressure, which is not the case today. There is pressure exerted on interns who do not is not acceptable. At the same time, we must seriously raise the number of trained doctors. “
Another proposal of the deputies, to oblige the doctors who wish to leave a territory under endowed to respect a notice of one year. “The health authorities, and in particular the Regional Health Agency, must be given time for local actors to find alternative solutions. In the constituency where I live, it is the professionals themselves, the liberal doctors themselves, who have tried to find solutions to organize urgent vacations in a multidisciplinary health center which is five years old: it is brand new. and she no longer has a doctor. It is not reasonable, it is not acceptable. So, we cannot be representative of the nation, see that the incentive measures are no longer sufficient, without making new proposals, in particular regulation.“, insists Thierry Benoit.