The health section of the National Council for Refoundation was launched on Monday, October 3 at the Palais des Congrès in Le Mans. Throughout the day, elected officials, caregivers, patient representatives as well as the Minister of Health François Braun and Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions listened to the first proposals of people working in the field. Objective of this extensive consultation that will continue in other departments : improve the French healthcare system and cope, as quickly as possible, with the galloping medical desertification.
“It is not a question of repeating the observation“, said the Minister of Health, as he had indicated on France Bleu Maine on Friday September 30. “We know the diagnosis. It is shared“, recalled François Braun. “Discuss solutions, not problems“. And this, whileabout one in five Sarthe residents has no attending physicianlike about 6 million people in France.
Save time before the arrival of the SAMU
Among the Sarthe innovations discussed during this day and which can serve as an example, that of the Paramedical Emergency Medicine Teams: the EPMUs. The Sarthe has three in rural areas. Those are kinds of advanced SAMU. A pair of caregivers and nurses, in telephone contact with an emergency doctor, takes care of the person faced with a life-threatening emergency and administers first aid before the arrival of the ambulance or helicopter.
For a year and a half and the installation of Ia first team in Château-du-Loir, this system works well, according to its initiator. So much so that Doctor Joël Pannetier is consulted by many colleagues. ” I must have been called by about thirty Samu in France and I even have work in progress with colleagues, in particular Vendée or Dordogne. We work hand in hand. Not a week goes by without a call from a colleague. We distribute all our documents without any restriction, since the idea is that our experience can be useful to others “, Details the deputy medical manager of the SAMU of Le Mans.
“They have very good results”
Himself an emergency doctor four months ago, the Minister of Health knows this Sarthe innovation well. She has vocation to generalize as part of the overhaul of the health system, confirms François Braun. ” It’s been talked about for years in the emergency medicine community. They have very good results. They showed that we gained 20 min or 25 min on the arrival of a resuscitation team. So this is typically the kind of thing that now needs to be framed from a regulatory point of view and given the possibility to other territories to use it. “. In Sarthe, after Château du Loir, Saint-Calais and Le Bailleul, a fourth emergency medicine paramedical team is to be set up soon in La Ferté-Bernard.