But what happened to the Romanian doctors announced by Mayor Frédéric Laporte before the municipal elections? The question came from Pierre Mothet (PCF), an elected opposition member, during the city council, Thursday, December 10, 2020.
Last January, during your vows, you announced with great pomp the arrival of several Romanian doctors supposed to come to the aid of the health of the Montluçonnais. Eleven months later, the situation deteriorated further with the retirement of several practitioners, none of these Romanian doctors has joined the city on the banks of Cher
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Three doctors who ultimately did not come
Mayor Frédéric Laporte (LR) confirmed that no Romanian general practitioner has arrived safely to date. “A doctor was close to settling in and decided at the last moment to go to La Rochelle. A second did not have a good enough level in French and was rejected by the departmental order of doctors. Finally, a third doctor is blocked in Romania because of the pandemic ”, he regretted during the municipal council.
Frédéric Laporte added, however, at the end of the council that the Aparm association opened a health center in September in the Bien-Assis district and that a medical center was created at the Montluçon public hospital last March. .
Opening of the Bien-Assis health center in Montluçon: a large number of patients welcomed from the first day
Doctors who keep leaving
“Medical desertification has further increased with three departures in June (Doctors Magnière, Provenchère and Buscaglia) and two others will retire at the end of the year”, alert for his part François Brochet, former running mate of Joseph Roudillon (DVD) and doctor.
What other solution?
“In Montluçon, the community relied on the Romanian doctors, but they left as quickly as they had arrived. I am not throwing stones at the elected officials for having tried the coup, but the question arises: do we continue like this with the risk of doctors who leave as quickly as they arrive or who take medical aids? installation and who leave two years later? », Continues François Brochet.
His solution? “We would have to recruit someone full-time to canvass in French faculties, to sell our city to candidates for installation. Other cities have done it successfully: Bergerac, Figeac or Tulle. “
Guillaume Bellavoine (with Michaël Nicolas)
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