VIDEO. “Access to healthcare for everyone everywhere is a beautiful lie”: the observation of a doctor who spent time in South Aveyron

La médecin alerte sur la situation médicale en Sud-Aveyron. Capture d'écran

The young doctor has made a replacement stay in South Aveyron and challenges the deputies.

Anaïs Werestchack has embarked on an unusual tour of France. A doctor, a recent graduate, she is touring the medical deserts in France, accompanied by her partner, Brice Philippon, a physiotherapist. During this tour aboard a converted van, the couple stopped off in South Aveyron where they were able to take a quick look at the situation on site.

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“Actors of a healthcare system in peril”

A ruling that inspired Anaïs Wrestchak. She took up her pen to write an open letter to the National Assembly in which she describes what she saw during her visit to South Aveyron. “If I am writing to you, it is in the hope of making my words heard, by those who, comfortably seated in the Assembly, make decisions concerning us, doctors, actors in a health care system in peril and victims, like our patients, of several years of disastrous policies,” she introduced. […] Each day passes at a pace that leaves me no time to have a proper lunch or go to the toilet […] A few years ago, six doctors covered this territory of 652 square kilometers, with more than 6,000 inhabitants, but today I am alone, replacing for 15 days a doctor who should already be retired.”

“My schedule is saturated”

The young doctor, who graduated a year ago, continues her description of her experience in Saint-Affricain: “The day hasn't even started and my schedule is already full. Requests for emergency consultations keep coming in. But how can we accept refusing to treat patients who will have to go, if they can, to the emergency room closest to their home, sometimes more than an hour away, saturated in a hospital that is threatening to close. How can we accept having to sort between those we are going to treat and the others ? Sorting is what the 15 is forced to do here… How old ? What reason ? We don't take anymore…”

“I'm not talking to you about a territory at war”

The doctor originally from Auvergne finishes this dark, yet realistic picture of the medical situation in South Aveyron. “I ended up calling a private ambulance, they came to get him but no service could keep him so they sent him back and put him back in his room at the nursing home… Access to care everywhere and for everyone is a beautiful lie. How did we, French people, citizens of the third European power, get to this point ? […] I'm not talking to you about a territory at war, or an underdeveloped country, I'm talking to you here about the daily life of caregivers and patients in South Aveyron.”

Relayed in a video on social networks, Anaïs Werestchack's speech has been viewed nearly 200,000 times.

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