A new study warns of medical deserts in rural areas.
The Association of Rural Mayors of France (AMRF), which is at the origin, this time points to the distances of access to emergencies.
Now,
"more than 6 million inhabitants live more than thirty minutes from an emergency service and 75% of them live in rural areas,"
their survey indicates.
This half hour is commonly accepted as a critical threshold for interventions with patients requiring immediate care.
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Mayor of Fercé-sur-Sarthe in Sarthe and first vice-president within the AMRF, Dominique Dhumeaux observes a situation which has deteriorated for five to six years.
With fewer and fewer teams, the emergency services, which operated 24 hours a day, now sometimes close at night, sometimes at weekends.
“And there are even emergency services that only exist on paper.
In reality, they never work, because there are no more doctors, ”
the city councilor alarmed.
This shortage
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