Paris (AFP)
The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted at first reading a MoDem bill to create "reception points for immediate care" (PASI), the "missing link" between city medicine and emergencies.
The bill adopted by 40 votes and qualified by its rapporteur Cyrille Isaac-Sibille "modest but important for our fellow citizens", allows the creation of structures hosting care requiring immediate response, but not involving the vital prognosis of patient, like a sprain.
These structures would be based on a "simple technical platform", imaging, biology or even minor surgery, and would allow according to the rapporteur an "effective response to relieve emergencies." They would be identified by an orange cross.
The Social Affairs Committee had restricted these PASIs only in the context of territorial health projects (PTS) or territorial occupational health communities (CPTS) created in the summer of 2019.
A restriction that jeopardized the rapid creation of structures, "weakening" deplored by several speakers.
However, a compromise was found in the Chamber, with an amendment from the rapporteur, which gives the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) the opportunity to label the PASI pending the creation of the CPTS, for a period of five years.
This compromise, hailed by the whole Chamber, has made it possible to restore "flexibility" and "reactivity" to the system, according to the rapporteur.
Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Child Protection, encouraged the creation of a "concrete tool", emphasizing "being attached to the fact that PASIs are part of the cooperation between health actors" .
Stéphane Peu (PCF) however stressed that the proposed device was only "a simple palliative in the problem of access to care", when the LFI deputy Jean-Hugues Ratenon called it a "patch".
This text was an opportunity for all speakers to recall the difficulties faced by the French health system and especially emergencies.
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