The waiting room is always full. Since the opening of the municipal health center on Wednesday February 15 in the city center of the town of Bergerac in the Dordogne, many residents have come for a consultation. Nothing new so far, except that the three general practitioners who receive their patients “in line” are all employees of the town hall. The municipality had the idea of directly hiring practitioners to overcome the crying lack of general practitioners in the city. The situation had become problematic since there were only 20 doctors left to solve the ills of a city of 30,000 inhabitants, explains France blue Périgord.
These three doctors recruited through advertisements on the Internet and in newspapers by the town hall were therefore eagerly awaited. This job posting intended for fight against medical deserts found a taker: a Romanian, a Spanish, and a young graduate from the University of Bordeaux answered the call, interested in the idea of salaried employment.
A significant demand for medical consultations
The news of these almost providential arrivals quickly spread throughout the city. The demand in doctors is such that 1,600 residents without a doctor (retired or who have moved) went to the town hall to request an appointment with salaried doctors, according to France Bleu.
In France, 14.6 million people are thought to reside in a zone of tension, marked by the shortage of general practitioners located less than 30 minutes from home recalled theUFC-What to choose last October.
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