We do not hide it: France the lack of rural physicians. To see a general practitioner, must make some miles, others wait months for a specialist.
I read Le Figaro devoted a very interesting article on the existence of a mobile unit to address the shortage of doctors in rural areas. There is now a medical office mobile, "health bus" that travels the back roads of Picardy, the French region's most deprived doctors.
The demographic crisis is particularly disturbing that in this region, many health indicators are orange or red. The rate of overweight Picards is well above the national average, as the number of cases of type 2 diabetes. Besides the excess mortality from breast and cervical cancer, cardio-vascular diseases associated with tobacco or alcohol ...
Within the "Health Bus" everything is ready to receive patients. The vehicle has been carefully constructed, with one hand, a local secretariat, hospital, the other a medical office with an examination table.
For now, the practitioner is under recruitment. But the tandem nurse-social worker can already get great service.
Daniel Peat, president of Mutual of Picardy, which coordinates the operation, said that "the bus is not there to replace doctors, but to complement what they do not have time to do".
Hopefully this pilot tends to generalize and that patients can best be supported as they are seen more regularly for medical and para medical. Volunteers to visit the bus health?
A "health bus" campaign in Picardy
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