a first interministerial steering committee on February 14, announces Olivier Véran

“On February 14, I will meet the first interministerial steering committee” to define the national action plan against endometriosis, announced the Minister of Solidarity and Health, Olivier Véran, Wednesday January 12 on franceinfo. Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron announced the launch of a national strategy to fight this disease. According to Olivier Véran, this interministerial steering committee “will mobilize civil society enormously”. “As they say that it is a disease that must be made known, and that we have very committed associations, I want us to be able to rely on the women of this country”, he added.

“We have to train more” gynecologists and surgeons specializing in endometriosis, he insisted. He also wants to improve the way the health system deals with women affected by this disease. “We must provide an answer to all women, that we further strengthen the support by Social Security with different modalities that can be examined, so that none of them can be blocked in care that she must receive for financial reasons “, he added.

Endometriosis is according to Olivier Véran “a subject that is one of these ’emerging’ health topics, except for those who suffer from it”, he admitted. In France, 10% of women are affected: “It’s this little teenager who can’t follow the class because she has a stomach ache and who goes to the infirmary; it’s this young woman who has terrible period pains and who is heard to answer, in general, ‘it’s normal, it’s the rules’ “, enumerated the Minister of Solidarity and Health. Endometriosis “is the leading cause of infertility in our country” and “one of the main causes of pain” during menstruation, underlined Olivier Véran. Pains that “are absolutely disproportionate to normal period pain”, he insisted.