In Toulouse, a new on-call medical center is ready to open in Purpan
A medical care center, intended to receive adults and children for unscheduled consultations and care, is ready to open in Toulouse. Behind the children’s hospital, she is only waiting for the doctors.
Behind the Children’s Hospital, on the Purpan hospital site, the premises have been ready since February. Eight bungalows, offering 6 to 7 consultation boxes for adults and children and two reception rooms over 200 m², were set up in a short time by the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Toulouse. Only the doctors are missing to make this new medical house work. The organization is being developed via the Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie), the departmental council of the Haute-Garonne medical order with the support of the URPS (regional union of health professionals) . The opening is expected for the fall.
A tool to regulate the influx to the emergency room
“Even if there are already those of La Grave and La Faourette, the Purpan medical care center is expected. In particular to help regulate the influx to pediatric emergencies where patients come with low but important gravity factors for whom a medical response is necessary, ”confirms Thierry Cardouat, Haute-Garonne departmental director of ARS Occitanie.
“It is absolutely necessary that this site be open for the winter period”, warns Professor Isabelle Claudet, head of the children’s center at the Toulouse University Hospital. “Some care can be treated elsewhere than in pediatric emergencies where activity is increased by 30% in July. My wish is that general practitioners reinvest the permanence of outpatient care, even the emergency services of general hospitals. I know that they have constraints, but you have to organize a circuit and that the population knows where to go, ”continues the pediatrician.
The regional health agency suggests that from 9 medical centers on duty, Haute-Garonne will increase to 16 by the start of 2023.
Who to contact for treatment in Haute-Garonne?
In case of need for unforeseen care but not of a vital emergency, here are some reflexes to adopt.
Contact your general practitioner first. In particular, he can leave instructions on his answering machine. In the event of unavailability or outside the opening hours of medical practices, other medical devices can be used.
In Haute-Garonne, this summer, 9 sites of the medical care center type or equivalent are operating. Attention, it is necessary to call before moving to obtain an appointment.
A Toulouse : SOS doctors (two sites: 24 route d’Espagne and 76 allées Jean-Jaurès). Tel: 05 61 33 00 00; Medical center of La Grave (Cité de la santé, place Lange). Tel: 05 61 59 22 12. La Faourette Medical Center, 142 avenue Henri Desbals, Tel. 05 34 46 54 76.
Several on-call medical homes also operate at Colomiers(clinic of the Pyrenees), Frouzins(87 Mediterranean Boulevard), Lespinasse , Peyssie(retirement home) and Saint-Gaudens. It is imperative to call 39 66 before movinga regulating doctor will direct you or give you medical advice.
In case of doubt or vital emergency, composer on the 15th.