Michel Onde, Valère Segal et Bernard Seu ont fait une mise au point sur le projet de déménagement des médecins de Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas. Midi Libre – C. C.
This Wednesday morning, he presented the project of a multidisciplinary health center, “medicine for all in the face of shortages”. And gave his version of the facts: he did not go looking for these doctors, they are the ones who need larger premises and to organize themselves into a network.
The case of the doctors who will leave Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas for Pont-Saint-Esprit has caused waves in the canton (read here and here). Claude Salau, mayor of Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, is furious, even though he learned of this move via an article published in Midi Libre, a few days before Christmas. Last Friday, during his New Year's greetings to his people, he repeated all the bad things he thought about this story, both in substance and in form.
This Wednesday, January 29, the mayor of Pont-Saint-Esprit, elected officials Véra Randrianasolonandrasana and Michel Onde and the mayor's chief of staff Bernard Seu held a press briefing to share their clarifications on the theme of “the major challenge” of “medicine for all against a backdrop of shortages”.
“Each village will no longer be able to have its own doctor”
After the observations (the territory is severely impacted by the shortage of doctors – the last general practitioner in Pont-Saint-Esprit announced his retirement in June – and the way young doctors practice compared to older ones has changed), Mayor Valère Segal first emphasized that no, the inhabitants of the villages were not beggars, just understanding their disappointment. “Each village will no longer be able to have its own doctor. We must adapt to reality. The most effective and rapidly actionable solutions come from the field.” And to recall that no one had said a word at the time when doctors had left Pont-Saint-Esprit for Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas and Goudargues, where Spiripontains and residents of the area have been going ever since. Two of the doctors from Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, trained in Pont-Saint-Esprit, had left because “nothing was moving”.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000In the short term, eight doctors in the premises of the Cazerne Pépin
A doctor (radiologist), who had led a project for a multidisciplinary health center that had failed to come to fruition more than ten years ago, Mayor Valère Segal asserts about the doctors of Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas: “We must trust them because they live at the heart of the problem.” They are the ones who came to find the Spiripontaine team : “They are in a critical shortage of space and tell me that they have been reporting this for some time without any institutional reaction.” For example, they cannot accommodate a fourth doctor, a former intern who wants to. “So it is urgent.” “They want to change their practices by working in two boxes with the help of a nurse, to optimize the “pure” time spent with the patient and therefore take care of more patients.” With the current reforms, “in the short term”, four doctors, as well as two interns and two “Junior Doctors” would move into the municipal premises (where they will pay rent) of La Cazerne in Pont.
A center and satellites
“A structuring and rapid project, that's what the population of the territory needs.” Valère Segal therefore returns to the creation of a multidisciplinary health center. Specialists in setting up this type of project, assures Valère Segal, recommend the installation of four general practitioners as a starting point, to be joined by other doctors and professionals (nurses, physiotherapist, podiatrist, dietician, psychologist, midwife, etc.). To “work together, for coordination of care and more efficient overall care. The time when everyone is locked into their discipline is over. There is a lung center, a strategic city connected to satellites that are the villages”. PRM access, parking, public transport links, multi-purpose room for meetings and training, the Health Centre project will be considered by the Vallis Bona professional community, which is starting workshops on the subject at the beginning of the year, at the end of which “a working session may be proposed to the mayors of the area”. This summer (mid-August at the latest), the doctors will move into the former Cazerne Pépin accommodation centre. There were 28 rooms, “so there will be 28 boxes. I didn't want the doctors to move elsewhere, we found this solution”, justifies Valère Segal, who also announced that he had signed the building permit for the hospital on Tuesday, which had just received authorization for his project “There is no project that opposes”, concludes Bernard Seu.
The college file “is moving forward”
Another file that has set the powder alight in the canton: the land of the future college. The new municipal majority voted, at the end of November, to terminate the agreement that linked the City of Pont-Saint-Esprit to the EPF (Occitanie Public Land Establishment) for the purchase of the land. “”At our initiative, we met with the Department on Monday. We are moving forward. There is goodwill on both sides. The important thing is that one day students and teachers work in good conditions. A big black mark for us remains, the financial capacity to support this project", announces Valère Segal who points out that this project dates back to 2012 : "We can't blame the delay."
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