About fifty mayors, presidents of communities of communes and elected officials of Indre all tendencies combined, as well as Senator Frédérique Gerbaud send a letter to the Prime Minister to alert him to the situation of the Blanc hospital
It was during a meeting on Friday in Ciron that the elected officials wrote this solemn letter to Jean Castex in which they paint the picture of a failing care offer in a hospital which nevertheless concerns a population pool of 60,000 inhabitants some of which are more than an hour from any other health facility.
Cardiology and surgery at risk
The complaints relate in particular to cardiology. For lack of a cardiologist, no more consultations are guaranteed at Le Blanc. and since this summer, a surgeon has also left without being replaced. “A new “hard blow” which objectively jeopardizes the surgical permanence of the establishment.“Bitterly note the elected officials questioning the Prime Minister:”Is this site destined, in the short term, to essentially only provide follow-up care?“before specifying”We would know how to solve it.“
Public health problem
The elected officials therefore ask the Prime Minister to seize the dossier “head-to-head” .
That of a vital medical service, in a hyper-rural environment, they recall, more than 60 km from the centers of Poitiers and Châteauroux. The situation is alarming insists the elected officials specifying that for lack of practitioners certain patients “waive treatment“.
“the difficulties are emblematic of those encountered by many similar structures in our country” emphasize the elected officials, therefore believing that their approach is part of a “general and national interest.” “It is about the equality of our fellow citizens in the face of one of the most precious goods which the national community has to guarantee their enjoyment: the supply of health.” they conclude