In November 2020, Sylvie Bertoliatti Fontana has been working as a general practitioner in Vernouillet, north-east of Yvelines for 7 years, after having started in 1983 in Les Mureaux, a few kilometers away. But the lease of his premises is coming to an end and for “personal reasons”, she does not wish to renew it. She is looking for another room, but nothing is available in Vernouillet. Nothing that suits him in the surrounding towns either. “I realized how difficult it was to find something that suited me”, explains Sylvie Bertoliatti Fontana.
One day, she agrees to see a patient who no longer had a doctor. “I tell her that I accept to receive her but telling her that I don’t even know where I’m going to go next month.” The patient in question is the director of the commune’s health service. From one thing to another, Sylvie Bertioliatti Fontana gets an appointment with the mayor of Vernouillet. So that the only general practitioner does not leave the town, he suggests that she join a room near the town hall, where the town’s CCAS was previously located. Some work is necessary, and after a month, “the day before or on Christmas day”, Sylvie Bertoliatti Fontana joins her new firm. “They really lived up to my expectations!”
A planned medical center in the town
For the mayor of Vernouillet, Pascal Collado, it was inconceivable to let her go: “It’s a winner. For the doctor, it allows him to stay in the city to which she was attached, the patient is not too confused because the practice has moved a hundred meters and for the city it ‘ is attractiveness. “ The mayor who also takes the subject of health in his municipality very seriously, sincea medical center should be created by the beginning of the year 2023.