“We are very bad at prevention in France, we have a health system which only finances care once you are sick and which finances prevention actions very badly”, declared this Sunday March 25, Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health, at the microphone of France Inter.
It is for this reason that on Monday March 26, she will launch with the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, “a major prevention plan with extremely concrete measures, which will allow the French to fall ill less and preserve lives”, said she added.
Make screening accessible to all
Among these measures, free cervical cancer screening, to “make it accessible to all women”. “We are going to organize it and all the women who have not had a smear for 3 years will have to have a smear covered 100% by Social Security”, sums up the minister.
Remember that each year, 3,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and the disease causes 1,000 deaths. The Social Security financing law for 2018, adopted last December, provides for the payment of a single consultation for the prevention of breast and cervical cancers for insured persons at the age of 25. .
Agnès Buzyn also announced at the end of February the establishment of a “health service”, Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promise. “From September 2018, 48,000 nursing students, physiotherapists, pharmacists, doctors, will go to schools to explain sexually transmitted diseases in particular” and to do health education, recalled the minister.
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