On this day of official presentation to the Olliergues city council, it is announced as the first municipal medical center of Puy-de-Dôme. So far only the Department has dared to pay doctors to make up for the deficit in this sector.
A first for the territory and for the municipality and its mayor who have targeted the replacement of their “last” doctor. First of all, looking for a replacement for him as a liberal since 2018: “We have done everything possible to encourage the installation of a new general practitioner”, points out Arnaud Provenchère, first magistrate of the municipality. How to make premises available … A waste of time.
€ 60,000 for the medical center building
On January 1, 2022, the Regional Health Agency ended up classifying the sector as a priority intervention area with respect to this situation. “It was a turning point. In view of our fruitless quest to find a doctor in private practice, we only needed to work as a definitive answer to the medical wasteland. We had a municipal building to renovate. “
Once the premises are in place, it is not the investment work that brings it up to standard and in line with the needs of a doctor’s office that remain the most problematic.
To do this, the municipality of about 800 souls will pay around 60,000 euros, including materials and furniture. “The technical services are very competent. We put them to work. Therefore, we had to find and convince doctors to join the project, even abroad. A Romanian doctor seemed interested but in the end he preferred to settle elsewhere… ”, remembers the chosen one.
The city of Olliergues (Puy-de-Dôme) innovates and hires doctors
One foot in the hospital, the other in the city
Originally from the Lille region, a young woman, a general practitioner, has chosen to sign. “I live in Thiers with my wife. This location in Olliergues brings me closer to my home. I wanted to keep my first time at the Ambert hospital to keep one foot in the hospital environment, while I had another in city medicine, “says Dr. Céline Preux. This, according to professional schedules that should allow him to combine work and family life.Dr Patrick Jullien and Céline Preux surround Arnaud Provenchère, Mayor of Olliergues and their future medical assistant, Mélanie Subert, in front of the municipal medical center, located in the heart of the city, along the D 906.
To feel useful
For Dr. Patrick Jullien, the approach of retirement, his wife who has to work for a few more years and the purchase of a house in Saint-Gervais-sous-Meymont, weighed on the budget: “We wanted to find a property inside from a nearby radius in the Lyon region. My wife will continue to work in Lyon. I couldn’t see myself waiting for her the day she got home from work. “
Besides, I need to feel useful to society. Does responding to a medical situation in the desert make sense ?!
Objective: consultations from 8:00 to 20:00
Dr. Céline Preux will therefore work three days a week and Dr. Patrick Jullien, two. For the moment, the mayor is still looking for another full-time equivalent general practitioner.
“In order for the medical center to operate as we wish, Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 20:00 and Saturday mornings, it would take one or two doctors who do not wish to work full time. An assistant, a state-certified nurse, was also recruited. Her missions: patient reception, pre-consultation, administrative work … And for prevention, she will be with the Asalée association, every week.
The municipal medical center of Olliergues is to open on January 2, 2023 at 28 rue Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny. Patients are advised to make an appointment via PhDfrom mid-December.
Geneva Thivat
