Yasmina Kattou // Photo credit: THOMAS SAMSON / AFP 8:13 p.m., April 8, 2024
It is this Wednesday that the bill on the end of life will be presented to the Council of Ministers. The Minister of Health has already announced several measures in favor of palliative care. Catherine Vautrin also went to a unit at the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif. But then what does the government's plan provide?
The government will present the end-of-life bill this Wednesday during the Council of Ministers. A project of which we already know that several measures will favor palliative care. The government wants to offer all patients who need it the opportunity to benefit from this care.
The plan provides for the creation of a specialization in palliative medicine
To do this, 11 new palliative care units will be created before the end of the year. The objective is that all territories will be covered in 2025. Furthermore, while there is no specialization in palliative medicine today at the university, the plan provides for the creation of training.
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A measure which will not respond to the lack of caregivers in the medium term, regrets Claire Fourcade, president of the French Society for Palliative Care: "The creation of the specialty is around 10 years away. So after that, the time to train these doctors, we are looking at a very long time, we are not at all at the end of 2024.”
Finally, from this year, support centers should be set up. A hybrid space dedicated to patients who no longer need to be hospitalized, who require complex care, but who cannot return home because they are alone. Around a hundred of these houses should see the light of day within ten years.