In order to overcome the shortage of doctors in the town, the municipality of Varennes-Vauzelles has embarked on a project to create a health centre. A project which should materialize in the last quarter of the year and which will complement the already existing offer.
In such a center, health professionals are salaried and work as a team, a status that is now more attractive for many of them.
Mayor Olivier Sicot detailed: “Six general practitioners will eventually practice in this municipal health center, with other professionals and medical assistants. They will be installed in a building that remains to be built, of approximately 300 m2, located boulevard Camille-Dagonneau”.
This space should be completed in the last quarter of 2023. The center should then be open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Tele-expertise is envisaged
On the patient side, patients residing in the town of Varennes-Vauzelles and those in the surrounding area who do not have a doctor will be able to consult. Teleconsultation will be set up and tele-expertise possible to seek an opinion from a specialist (a dermatologist for example).
Despite numerous questions and some disagreements, the elected opposition members voted for this project and the opening of the posts (first doctors and medical assistants) which results from it. The group made up of Catherine Robin-Chauvot and Pascal Garnier abstained on the vote concerning the lease of the building.
The opening of the center could be established during the last quarter of 2023.
Optimal operation is expected for 2027, when the care and administrative teams will have reached their full strength.
Budget orientation debate. The budget projection highlights several data: the expected change in the 2023 budget is almost nil; the implementation of a municipal sobriety plan (public lighting, heating, etc.) is underway; and personnel costs are up slightly (upgrades, with no increase in the workforce). Investments should focus on four areas: heritage and services (modernization of schools, etc.), roads (renovation of sidewalks, etc.), ecological transition (switch to LEDs, replanting of trees, etc.) and projects (place de the Republic, Espace Jean-Moulin, etc.).
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