“There are currently positions for dental surgeons at Quimper hospital. These doctors would be able to tutor students enrolled in the sixth and final year at the Brest dental school. And in this context, create an emergency reception service for Cornwall in our hospital center,” explained Isabelle Assih before the community council meeting on Thursday, November 7, specifying that she is working on the project with the Brest University and the Quimper hospital.
“The dean of the university of odontology is looking for space,” adds the president of QBO who naturally sees a great opportunity for the area of the agglomeration where dentists are still cruelly lacking, like others health practitioners. “We are currently looking at where and how these dentist chairs can be installed in the hospital.” An additional stone to a public building in reconstruction and development that local partners inaugurated with the battle for the installation in Cornwall of an interventional rhythmology service in cardiology.
Investing in knowledge and research
In the context of community advice, Isabelle Assih entered this issue through the support provided by QBO to public higher education in general. And in particular to the three components of the University of West Brittany located in the region (Pierre-Jakez-Hélias university center; IUT and Esiab): €240,000 annually (€200,000 fixed part and €40,000 variable part) between 2024 and 2027, plus co-financing of two researcher theses over three years (50% of “salaries”).
“Our community continues to subsidize the university, despite the difficult economic context.” A political principle, first, aiming to give their place here to knowledge and research, favorable to the emergence of innovation. A political action, then, constituting a multifunctional investment for Cornwall: establishing a certain number of activities carried out by a new and young generation of professionals, themselves contributing to the attractiveness of a territory not experiencing the same dynamics development than the metropolises.
