Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons) was appointed Minister Delegate in charge of Health and Prevention on February 8, 2024. He considers medical deserts – which affect 85% of French territory – as “the No.
1 subject’ Seine-et-Marne is the 100th of the 101 French departments in terms of concentration of general practitioners and the 96th in Terms of caregivers. “It’s a phenomenon that has been going on for years and is getting worse because of the widening age pyramid. There is urgency but it takes ten years to train a general practitioner,” he says.