TESTIMONIALS – Faced with the growing difficulties of access to care, many French people cannot receive appropriate care. A daily deficiency.
“If in 2019, my mother had had her heart attack in our city, she would have died“, ends up letting go of Caroline after a few minutes of discussion on the phone. For this 30-year-old from Sens, in the Yonne, living in a medical desert is not just a distant concept: it is a daily reality, which, in certain situations, can make the difference between life and death. “Here, it would have been necessary to call the emergencies, that they make come a helicopter, that they bring it in cardiology in Paris and that one supports it. She wouldn’t have had a chance to get out“, Details this employee in a public relations agency. “It’s scary, but it’s become the daily life of many people“, she concludes.
A disturbing testimony, but far from being isolated: published this Tuesday, October 8, a study by UFC-Que Choisir draws up an alarming inventory of the progress of medical deserts in France. According to the organization, 1.7 million people would not have…
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