A field hospital was set up in the Decize village hall on Tuesday, November 19, at the instigation of its mayor, Justine Guyot. She wanted to denounce the situation of the Padhue, these practitioners qualified outside the European Union, and the population was able to express themselves via grievance books.
“Failure to assist a person in danger. » “Very angry about the management of health in Nièvre. It’s scandalous not to listen to the pain of citizens in 2024.”
Tuesday, November 19, the grievance books positioned at the entrance to the Decize village hall transformed into a field hospital were quickly filled.
The population is angry. Like Denise, a 90-year-old Decizoise.
I came like everyone else, to find out if we're going to have doctors.
The octogenarian does not drive and is forced to go to Dornes for treatment. 40 km round trip. “My daughter came from Moulins to pick me up from Decize to go there. » She has been experiencing this situation for two years, “when my 76-year-old doctor retired. »
Colette, 75 years old, and André Anvenier, 80 years old, also from Decize, travel 50 km round trip. “My treating doctor is in Fours and for the physiotherapist, I go to Lucenay-lès-Aix, 18 km away. As long as we can drive…” says, disappointed, André who is looking for “a dermatologist, a diabetologist… It’s very difficult to get an appointment”. And added: “They say that old people should no longer drive, so what should we do?? »
Difficulties denounced by many of the people who came to meet the Padhue, these practitioners qualified outside the European Union who do not have the right to practice privately.
Doctors who would be welcome in medical deserts. “There are no longer any diabetologists, dermatologists, specialists and treating doctors are increasingly rare. Ours is almost retired,” worry Daniel and Francesca Chassery from Cossaye. “We take you more quickly in the private sector but we ask you for money and with our small pension…” explains the septuagenarian.
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The couple made the trip on Tuesday November 19 “to look at the stands. But we didn't necessarily have any answers. If later there is the possibility of having on-site consultations, that would be good. »
Francesca admits: “I didn't think for a single moment today about the consultations. I was there to get information. » And to write on leaving in the grievance book:
No dermatology specialists in Nièvre to treat my problem.
The doors of the field hospital were opened at 9:15 a.m. and closed at 5 p.m. Around five hundred Nivernais made the trip and around fifty grievances were written.
Around thirty Padhue and demands
Around thirty specialists, mainly Padhue from the Paris region, received people at their stand. Here, general medicine. There, dermatology… around thirty specialties. “We explain who we are, our situation and our demands,” explains Dr Abdelhalim Bensaidi, vice-president of the Ipadecc association.
Doctors who would be ready to come and settle in Nièvre if they could.
Corinne disappointed not to have been able to consult
At the exit, Denis, one of the thirty volunteers recognizable by their red scarf, helps visitors to formulate their request like those of Annick and Gilles from the city of Saint-Just. “We need doctors in Nièvre and particularly in Decize where there are only two left for ten thousand inhabitants,” dictates Gilles, 67 years old. “There is no more maternity, no more surgery. The hospital will become a nursing home. »
This device, for the couple, “should shake things up a little. Those responsible must understand that there is a serious problem. »
On the next page, a red heart is drawn. A declaration of love. “I love my hospital. Motherhood allowed the birth of my children. […] The hospital where my life was saved, treated and welcomed several times. That time seems far away. But it must not be over. Health […] for all requires the preservation of local hospitals and a sufficient number of private doctors, Padhue or others […]. »
Corinne also left a note: “I thought I was coming for a consultation and I came away disappointed because the ARS blocked them.”From left to right: Marie-Guite Dufay, president of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region, and Justine Guyot, mayor of Decize.
Certainly, no consultation, no prescription but mobilization. That of the sixty elected officials from Niverna who signed a municipal decree prohibiting their fellow citizens from falling ill, of senator Patrice Joly, of regional councilors, including the president of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region, and departmental… and the population frightened and worried about to his future.
Emmanuelle Delaigues
