Toulouse. The intercommunality is committed with the Region for health
During the Community Council of the Heart and Coteaux Comminges, elected officials had to decide on the public interest group “My health, my Region”. A project that is debating, in a Comminges more than ever confronted with the medical desert.
In the logical continuation of the operations undertaken by the Occitanie Region, the Community of communes Cœur et coteaux Comminges was to discuss the partnership project with the Regional Council for the creation of a regional public service for local health. A bipartite contract taking the form of a GIP (Public Interest Grouping, editor’s note). Even if the Region takes care of all the salaries of the recruited doctors, the Community of communes intervenes in particular to provide premises dedicated to the health centers, without financial compensation. Thus Thursday evening, at the Villeneuve-de-Rivière exhibition center, the elected officials first drew up a “health bulletin” of the medical situation in Comminges. “35% of the population does not have a doctor in the Saint-Gaudinois”, announces Magali Gasto-Oustric the president. This observation is in addition to an increasingly significant lack of doctors in the north of Comminges, in particular towards L’Isle-en-Dodon. There is therefore an urgent need to rectify the situation. Especially since the whole of Comminges is affected by medical desertification.
Comminges struggles to respond
So in fact, a proposal for a partnership with the Regional Council for the salaried doctors by the Region gives rise to react in the assembly. Lionel Welter, the mayor of L’Isle-en-Dodon is particularly concerned by the shortage of doctors in his sector. “We only have two doctors left, and Doctor Castex is claiming his retirement rights at the end of March.”
Since then, active searches for practitioners have taken place in L’Isle-en-Dodon, in accordance with the municipal teams. Currently, the tracks are moving towards the recruitment of liberals in Portugal. The idea would be to establish four doctors on the territory of L’Isle-en-Dodon. And in addition to the difficulties encountered in recruiting, there is also the question of the location of the premises. And there it gets stuck. The use of the former Léon-Cazeneuve college is mentioned. But being located in a flood zone on the banks of the Save, “it’s like a poisoned gift”, retorts the mayor. Discussions on the project to set up a nursing home are to come. In the meantime, the GIP project between the Community of Communes Cœur et Coteaux Comminges and the Regional Council has been adopted unanimously by the elected officials, after numerous discussions.
The vaccinodrome closes Saturday March 26
The announcement was slipped during a debate on possible energy renovation work at the exhibition center. Part of the hall is currently used for the vaccination center against Covid-19. But from Saturday March 26, it will close its doors, given the sharp drop in attendance. Vaccination returns from March 27 to pharmacies or city medicine.