"Get started
in Sarthe
!"
This is the slogan that was plastered a year ago on posters in the capital's metro to encourage Parisians to come and settle in this department, which can be reached in just 54 minutes by TGV. Because this territory, presented as a small rural paradise for city dwellers in need of greenery, is seeing its treatment offer decline. Its doctors are leaving and some of its emergency rooms, all overheated, are closing completely or intermittently due to lack of staff. Here, as elsewhere in France, we are desperately looking for general practitioners, specialists, nurses but also caregivers.
“The situation there is particularly critical”
, underlines Laure Artru, former head of clinic of the hospitals of Paris and now rheumatologist in Le Mans.
“La Sarthe is the territory which, in five years, from 2015 to 2020, has lost the greatest number of doctors.
It is now the fourth worst-placed department in terms of the density of general practitioners per inhabitant.
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