It is an explosive report for an entire sector!
The Interministerial Inspectorate General of the Social Sector (Igas) has just published 28 recommendations to make the visual sector more efficient.
The finding is overwhelming.
Many French people do not have access to eye care and screening for visual disorders (glaucoma, AMD, myopia in children, etc.) remains insufficient.
“
The waiting times and the refusals of appointments remain excessively high,”
noted the Igas in a report made public on Monday.
It takes eighty days on average to get an appointment with an ophthalmologist, with great territorial disparities.
Containment, with 5 million fewer consultations, has made the problem worse.
A "
succession of proactive reforms"
since the early 2000s has done nothing.
The Igas deplores the organization of the sector around the "
compulsory passage"
in the ophthalmologist, including for the simplest disorders such as those of refraction.
And this, far from
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