Unpublished warning in Sarthe. Nine mayors of the department signed an order prohibiting falling ill in their commune. "A symbolic but strong act," says the press release from the Association of Rural Mayors of Sarthe (AMR 72), aimed at alerting the government to the difficulties of access to healthcare in the department, which are constantly degrade.
In a letter inviting the mayors of the department to apply the decree, the AMR paints a blackboard of the situation: emergency medical service and resuscitation (Smur) which close for some and without personnel for others, departure in more and more retirement of doctors not replaced thereafter, closing of pediatric resuscitation beds in hospitals…
The decree is clear, but obviously inapplicable: “Considering that the lack of general practitioners is becoming significant in the department of Sarthe […] Article 1: It is prohibited to want to benefit from urgent access to care for any pathology on the territory of the commune. "
"This is the priority concern of the locals"
A November 2019 UFC Que Choisir survey put La Sarthe at the top of the ranking regarding the refusal of general practitioners to accept new patients. To date, 70,000 Sarthois are without a treating doctor, nearly 12% of the total population. And in the case of a search for a new treating doctor, there is a 98% chance of being refused care in the department.
“It is a catastrophic situation. This decree is there to challenge the government and explain that it is essential to find solutions, ”testifies to 20 Minutes Dominique Dhumeaux, mayor of Fercé-sur-Sarthe and president of AMR 72.“ The subject of health , we only hear about that. This is the priority concern of the locals, ”he says.
Alarm calls for mayors
At the national level, a BVA survey for France Assos Santé revealed in November 2019 that 63% of French people had already given up seeking treatment from a doctor. Many of the interviewees mentioned that the waiting time was too long, linked to medical demography.
The fictitious decree, a new way of alerting the highest spheres of the state? An initiative already taken the mayor of Laigneville (Oise), had already taken a similar initiative in 2017. The municipal decree related to "the ban on Laignevillois from dying at home on the territory of the commune". An ironic and symbolic decision taken to alert public opinion to the shortage of doctors to come and see the deaths.
“The medical desert that is brewing in our department will cause a health crisis that we have not known since the end of the Second World War. In fact, in two or three years, some sectors of our department will no longer have a doctor, ”explained the elected official in a long Facebook post.
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