“On April 5, this system will be fully operational” announces Olivier Véran

The device “My Psycho”which allows children and adults to benefit from eight free sessions with a psychologist per year “will be fully operational” from “April 5th”announced this Wednesday on franceinfo the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. “Medically Oriented”the French will be able to have access to this device.

“If a doctor tells you that you have to see a psychologist, today you wonder how much it will cost you” whereas from April 5, “you will say to yourself” it will cost me nothing “”.

Olivier Veran

at franceinfo

“You will be reimbursed by the common law system, that is to say health insurance and complementary health insurance”, adds the Minister of Health. He thinks it will be about “tens, hundreds of thousands of French people”. “We needed to start with about 1,000 psychologists throughout the national territory, we have identified and we thank them 1,000 volunteer psychologists”he explains.

“It is the first time in the history of our country”, greets Olivier Véran. It evokes “considerable progress for access to psychological and psychic care” in France, where, according to him, we had “delay on that”.