The Working Group, members of the health center and elected officials communicate:
“For a very long time, the Magnoac was a privileged territory in terms of the healthcare offer compared to the population. Indeed, doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and other medical and paramedical professions had sufficient representatives to accommodate patients from our canton and neighboring cantons.
The opening of a nursing home in 2009 brought some comfort for professionals and users and a very practical unity of place. We were a pilot territory! Remember that this health center was one of the first to be established in our region under the leadership of the mayor of Castelnau, Bernard Verdier, supported by the elected representatives of the Magnoac Community of Communes. Thanks to sufficient space, specialists (speech therapists, chiropodists, physiotherapists, psychologists…) and several personal assistance services ADMR-CLIC-SSIAD… In short, Magnoac had a very complete and efficient health center.
Call for doctors:
Decrease in the number of doctors recruited from the 95s (the famous numerus clausus), tiny percentage of interns wanting to be general practitioners (1 in 10), wish of young doctors preferring the hospital environment. The consequence is that certain municipalities are sometimes obliged to seek doctors abroad. At the start of 2020, our Magnoac had 6 doctors: it was ideal! But, in a short time, what changes, two doctors are asserting their right to retire, a young doctor has left us, another will leave and therefore in the coming months, there will only be two or three doctors left on the Magnoac . The situation will then be more than worrying, fortunately the other health professions are still well represented.
Realizing the difficulties that await us and the urgency of the situation, the doctors, other members of the medical and paramedical staff, the elected officials of Castelnau and the CCPTM (community of municipalities) immediately mobilized.
Several meetings have taken place since mid-December with the health coordinator. In turn, the officials of the ARS (Regional Health Agency), the order of doctors, the MSA (agricultural social mutual) were invited to help us find a doctor or a solution. They all made the same observation; it is very difficult to attract a doctor and apart from some financial aid, we can only rely on our ability to seek, to make a caregiver want to join the group and our territory. The working group wants a liberal doctor to replace Dr Chevalier who had succeeded Dr Gharfi, but the practice has been closed for ten months. Faced with these difficulties in finding new doctors, all possibilities are being studied, taking into account the administrative constraints. Perhaps it will be necessary to accept that the status of this future doctor changes.
The members of the working group and local elected officials, whether from the municipality of Castelnau or from the CCPTM, are working to find a main replacement for our health center, and publish announcements on all the networks popular with doctors as well as on social networks which worked in several cases close to us. Anyone can relay this research. Concerned about the future, we will keep you posted if a solution is found ”.
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