This will be the first scanner installed in the Cévennes hospital. Camera obscura – STEPHANE BARBIER
Il s’agira du premier scanner mis en place dans l’hôpital cévenol. Midi Libre – Archive LIZA LENAIN
L’annonce a été rendue officielle ce vendredi 17 janvier pour cet hôpital niché dans le nord du Gard, à la frontière de la Lozère. Signe d’une réussite face à la problématique d’accès aux soins.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“It's not every day that you install a scanner in a hospital! Especially when it's a hospital like Ponteils!” In addition to being a departmental elected official, the former mayor of La Grand-Combe, Patrick Malavieille, is also chairman of the supervisory board of the Ponteils hospital center, in the eponymous town, located in the far north of the Cévennes gardoises.
An asset for local care
On Friday, January 17, the elected official received the order signed by Didier Jaffre, Director General of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Occitanie, confirming the investment in this new device, a first for the hospital, for this year 2025. The request for a new scanner had been sent to him during his visit to the site in December 2023. “If all goes well, we hope to have it up and running by the end of the year”, specifies Patrick Malavieille.
About ten years ago, the adage in this Cévennes region predicted, in the long term, a pure and simple closure of this hospital center, to the point of being the scene of mobilizations to preserve it. Secondary in size, but useful for the proximity of care to patients living in the upper Cévennes. Autonomous in its organization and finances, the Ponteils hospital, which employs around 120 people, is however under the responsibility of the management of the Alès hospital center.
A scanner in these places would, for the elected official, make a serious contribution to relieving congestion at the Alès hospital, the device making it possible to set up consultations and diagnoses for patients from neighboring valleys but also from the border Lozère.
The financing of this project is also not insignificant. In addition to the device, whose price is around €500,000, entirely financed by the ARS, the hospital and the Regional Health Agency will also have to pay an additional €500,000 for its installation. A specialized room, and above all secure because of the radiation from the scanner, must be set up to accommodate it.
The operation goes, for Patrick Malavieille, “hand in hand with advanced medical consultations” which can thus be set up, in addition to the parallel project of Ponteils on the development of the reception of aging disabled patients. “Anything that can strengthen its medical activity shows that this hospital is useful.”
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