Dans le 93, le désert médical avance
Victime de sa mauvaise image, la Seine-Saint-Denis n'attire pas les médecins. C'est dans ce département qu'ils sont le moins nombreux en Ile-de-France, alors que le besoin de soins y est très criant. A Bobigny, on compte 7,13 médecins pour 10 000 habitants contre 12,32 chez les voisins parisiens.
Certaines zones sont désormais qualifiées de "déserts médicaux" et la tendance ne fait que s'aggraver avec des médecins plus âgés qu'ailleurs et en mal de remplaçants à l'heure où sonne le départ en retraite.
La Seine-Saint-Denis détient le triste record de la mortalité infantile avec 5,4 cas pour 1 000 naissances, contre 3,6 en France, ainsi que celui de la tuberculose, du diabète... S'y installer devient presque un engagement militant. Une solution pour les collectivités concernées sont les centres de santé où le salaire des médecins est payé par ces derniers. Une solution qui a une limite: son coût élevé pour la collectivité.
Avec Sophie Bouillon pour Libération
In Seine-Saint-Denis, The medical desert moves forward
Victim of its bad reputation, Seine-Saint-Denis does not attract the doctors. It is in this department that they are least numerous in whole Ile-de-France, while the need for care is there very striking. In Bobigny, there is 7,13 doctors for 10 000 inhabitants against 12,32 for the Parisian neighbors.
Some aeras are qualified from now on as " medical deserts " and the situation is only getting worse with doctors older than elsewhere and facing a lack of replacements when the time for retirement has come.
Seine-Saint-Denis holds the sad record of infant mortality with 5,4 cases for 1 000 births, against 3,6 in France, as well as for tuberculosis, diabetes... To settle here has become almost as a commitment. A solution for the concerned communities are the health centers where the salary of the doctors is paid by the communities. A solution which has a limit: its hight cost for the community.
With Sophie Bouillon for the newspaper Libération
In Seine-Saint-Denis, The medical desert moves forward
Victim of its bad reputation, Seine-Saint-Denis does not attract the doctors. It is in this department that they are least numerous in whole Ile-de-France, while the need for care is there very striking. In Bobigny, there is 7,13 doctors for 10 000 inhabitants against 12,32 for the Parisian neighbors.
Some aeras are qualified from now on as " medical deserts " and the situation is only getting worse with doctors older than elsewhere and facing a lack of replacements when the time for retirement has come.
Seine-Saint-Denis holds the sad record of infant mortality with 5,4 cases for 1 000 births, against 3,6 in France, as well as for tuberculosis, diabetes... To settle here has become almost as a commitment. A solution for the concerned communities are the health centers where the salary of the doctors is paid by the communities. A solution which has a limit: its hight cost for the community.
