The Minister of Health, Yannick Neuder, presented on Friday, June 27, the mapping of the 151 zones on Friday, June 27, which will benefit from the support of general doctors, up to two days a month to combat medical deserts. And this, based on volunteering according to our information.
With this card, which identifies 151 priority intercommunalities for access to care, “we do not regulate the medical deserts” since they refer to “87% of the country”, but “it is a first step” that will benefit around 2 million patients, specified the minister interviewed in BFMTV.
This division is the fruit of a work “carried out with prefects, regional health agencies, local elected officials and also health professionals, to identify the particularly desert sectors,” he said.
According to him, it allows “identifying and provoking on these territories a collective solidarity, a collective commitment on September 1”.
An incentive system to “merode”
On April 25, a government measure was adopted to establish a “mission of mandatory territorial solidarity”, again imposing all doctors who work in a well -caused area to “project” in priority areas, up to two days a month.
“We are going to encourage doctors, and then, we must also mereize the system, find the places, these medical houses, these offices available to accommodate patients,” said the minister.
“These cards also allow you to work in places where 3,700 Junior doctors, new doctors” that “can be established in November 2026”.
Given the shortage of doctors, an access reform was adopted in the second year of Medicine on June 18 to allow more professionals to train.
The government also intends to “recover the French students who left abroad, in Romania, Spain” to study medicine, Yannick Neuder recalled, providing “more 20% of doctors by 2027, or almost 50,000 doctors.”
Source: BFM TV
