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Île-d’Aix, in Charente-Maritime, has lost its last remaining general practitioner, who has retired. Two nurses take turns to ensure permanence, but the inhabitants hope to find a new practitioner very quickly.
It is now the only health contact on Île-d’Aix (Charente-Maritime). Stéphane, nurse, makes the rounds of his patients, like Michel, diabetic, anguished by the absence of a doctor. Two nurses, Sarah and Stéphane, take turns every two weeks to ensure a daily presence, mainly home visits. And they too need to have a doctor on the island, because it is the backbone of the health system.
Medical house project
In high season, the island attracts up to 8,000 tourists every day. A general practitioner came to ensure a permanence last summer, but how to keep a doctor all year round? At the semaphore, a 600,000 euro medical center project has just been validated to renovate the premises. A dentist, a cardiologist, a diabetologist or a physiotherapist should provide consultations in the medical center before the end of the year, hoping for the rapid presence of a general practitioner, to take care of the 200 residents year-round, and all other visitors.
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