A plan to fight against medical deserts: the 2022 Health Pact was adopted this Friday, December 10, in the departmental council. In the Yonne, the lack of medical practitioners is crying: 221 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants, against a national average of 317. A plan of 5.4 million euros, over 3 years, from the start of 2022.
Short and long term solutions
Among the long-term solutions, a flagship measure: support for future practitioners. Assistance with training and installation in the department is planned. and that concerns doctors, but also dentists, physiotherapists and liberal nurses. And the report even specifies that this aid can be doubled in areas with high tension, such as Charny, the Rosoirs district in Auxerre, or Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, where there is no doctor.
But for that, the department must be interested, so the pact provides a strategy to increase its attractiveness: meet students in medicine, universities, or university hospitals. But these solutions take time to work; so other short-term avenues this time are mentioned. Among them, the opening of mobile health centers, which employ 3 or 4 practitioners in CDD and who crisscross the department. Telemedicine must also be developed and entrusted to liberal nurses.
How to do it, without a doctor?
Before the session, a group of about fifteen people, “A doctor for Saint-Siméon” made a point of meeting the president of the departmental council, Patrick Gendraud. Since November 2020, there is no longer a doctor in the Saint-Siméon district, in Auxerre.
The 2022-2024 Health Pact was adopted unanimously.