Prime Minister Jean Castex announced, on Tuesday, the creation, Orleans, of a training center, intended to stem the shortage of doctors who affects the region and worsening each year.
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Monitor medical studies at the University of Orleans will soon be possible: this is what Jean Castex announced to a delegation of local elected representatives and parliamentarians from the Center-Val de Loire region, come ring Alert, Tuesday, February 22, facing the shortage of doctors on their worsening territory. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister on January 14, they had highlighted the urgency to act, calling “a strong response to the height of human and sanitary issues”.
In Center-Val de Loire, the density is 350 practitioners per 100,000 inhabitants, the lowest in France and the situation is particularly worrying in general medicine with 98 doctors per 100,000 inhabitants against 124 per 100,000 to L national scale. Consequence: one in five inhabitants, including in large agglomerations like Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), Montargis (Loiret) and Orleans, did not declare a doctor.
“How to explain that in areas of comparable size, there is a faculty of medicine in Rouen and another in Caen? One in Besançon and another in Dijon? One in Clermont-Ferrand and others in Saint-Etienne , in Lyon and Grenoble?, lists Philippe Vigier, MP (Union of Democrats and Independents, UDI) of Eure-et-Loir and former internal hospitals of Paris. Here we only have the Faculty of Medicine of Tours , which makes with the means she has. “In September 2021, this establishment has welcomed 340 students, a ceiling, according to the Dean Patrice Diot, while it lacks more than one hundred teachers to ensure a rate of supervision complies with the national average. We are far so, of the 500 new doctors that should be formed every year to fill the “desert” regional.
In unison, the members of the delegation received in Matignon, of all political sensitivities, welcomed “a historical decision” on the part of the Prime Minister who committed to complete the file before the end of the term . The Ministers of Health Olivier Véran and Higher Education Frédérique Vidal, present at the hearing, will sign in the coming days a letter of mission addressed to their respective general inspections (that of social affairs and that of education, Sport and research) “To define the routes of recognition of a second medical university training site in the Center-Val-de-Loire region,” said Prime Minister’s release.
“Far West University”
The conclusions of this mission, expected by the end of March, will clarify the legal status of this antenna and its short- and medium-term host capacities to set up a first cycle of training that will rely on The Regional Hospital Center of Orleans, itself transformed for the occasion in a university hospital (CHU).
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