Isolate the sick child, draw up the list of contact cases, warn families, the regional health agency (ARS) and Medicare… Since last May, Dr Marianne Barré, school doctor in the Loiret, has been chasing after the virus.
“This epidemic has completely changed my work.
I no longer do more than crisis management within the Covid cell
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describes the practitioner who is also deputy general secretary of the Syndicate of school doctors (SNMSU-Unsa Education).
In her department, Dr Barré can count on three other colleagues.
A very insufficient number while it has 22,000 students under its responsibility.
But Loiret is not the only department in need of school doctors.
The shortage is systemic: there are barely 900 practitioners for the 12 million students.
And the pressure on these already anemic services has only increased.
“We also take care of teachers.
There is almost no occupational medicine at the National Education.
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