palliative care big delay in Haute-Marne

Emmanuel Macron announced his end-of-life model last March. We learned that 21 departments were without palliative care units (USP), including Haute-Marne. Which alarms Kim Tang, doctor in Vitry-le-François and specialist in prenatal diagnosis. “It’s an inequality in terms of care,” advances the practitioner who last October came to Saint-Dizier to give a conference on the subject.

“Who are we to speak for another?”

Since then, we have learned that 9 departments out of the 21 could be given a USP… but still not Haute-Marne. Indeed, the Ardennes, Orne, Cher, Lot, Lozère, Vosges, Pyrénées-Orientales, Mayenne and Guyana are part of the new batch. Haute-Marne with the Meuse would then be the only departments in Grand Est not to have a USP. For what ? We can legitimately ask. Doctor Tang does not have the answer but the financial question is undoubtedly part of the answer, as is the political weight of certain parliamentarians. This new end-of-life plan could not be voted on due to the dissolution of the National Assembly. Discussion of the bill is expected to resume from January 27, 2025. “It’s a plan worth 10 billion over 10 years from 2024 to 2034,” specifies Kim Tang. At the end of 2021, France had 171 PSUs for a total of 1,980 beds, or 2.9 beds per 100,000 inhabitants. For the moment, there is a mobile palliative care unit in Haute-Marne which depends on Bar-le-Duc with a nurse and a psychologist, but for the practitioner it is insufficient.

Aging

“One of the solutions would be to go through the treating doctors, this is the key element”assures the specialist. The difficulty lies in

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