Emmanuel Macron travels to the Loir et Cher on the theme of medical deserts. While the Head of State made access to healthcare one of the key promises of his campaign a year ago, it is difficult for him to claim tangible results.
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Emmanuel Macron will visit a multidisciplinary university health center (MSPU), Tuesday April 25, on the occasion of his move to Vendôme. The objective for the President of the Republic is to take as an example of what works. Bringing doctors together in one place is what he wants to highlight in Loir-et-Cher. Yes, but here it is: we still need to have doctors, and the government knows it: the worst is yet to come, despite the end of the numerus clausus.
“We have not yet touched the bottom of the pool. It will take years to find a significant number of doctors.”
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Last week on France Bleu, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne did not imagine imposing the installation of young doctors in medical deserts, just like Emmanuel Macron, for fear that medical students would desert general practitioner training. No question either of regulating the installation, as for pharmacists, while a bill to this effect was almost unanimous in the National Assembly. She now seems buried. Instead the Prime Minister is considering a minimal solution.“Perhaps controlling the installation of doctors in the rare areas where there are many? This is a debate that we will have in the coming weeks, the coming months in Parliament”she announced.
Two small areas essentially have an overflow of doctors in France, around Nice and Biarritz, but not enough to solve the problem of 90% of the country. Difficult in any case for the government to go further than the incentive. Emmanuel Macron has also recognized it in thee Parisien Today in France [article payant] : “We do, but I don’t care about corporatism”.
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