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The mayor of La Gresle (Loire) has issued a decree forbidding the inhabitants of his commune to die at their homes on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, to denounce the shortage of doctors.

The measure is deliberately absurd. In La Gresle, a small town of 850 inhabitants in central France, the mayor issued a decree forbidding residents from dying at their homes on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Isabelle Dugelet intends to alert the shortage of caregivers and more generally, " a catastrophic health situation " in his town and neighboring municipalities , she told AFP.

The sector lacks medical care because the doctors, too few, are exempted. On December 1, the mayor took two and a half hours to find a doctor to report the death of a resident of the local Ehpad, said the daily Le Progrès who revealed the information .

" For patients, there is no solution. "

" There is a big headache about this lack of doctors, which is only increasing over the years, says Isabelle Dugelet at the microphone of RFI. Until now, we had a big shortage of doctors, but year in, year out, we still managed to get treatment. But the retirement of a doctor from a neighboring village - of course, we do not have a doctor on the spot - completely destabilized the population, who no longer has a medical doctor for the most part, since this doctor had a big patient. "

" For patients," she continues, " there is no solution. I have seen many in recent days, they come to confide a little bit to me. This morning, I was told that the inhabitants of my commune and the sector continue to go to Lyon to see a doctor who has been replacing for a while on the neighboring commune. You realize, we are 75 kilometers from Lyon ! And there, not to have a substitute, not to have a solution for them, it is unbearable. "

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