Dijon. Doctors will leave for Nevers by plane to make up for the shortage
Remember: at the end of November, we reported the astonishing idea of the mayor of Nevers (Nièvre), Denis Turiot, who proposed to set up an air link with Dijon to compensate for the shortage of Nivernais doctors. “I have been presiding over the Nevers hospital for eight years […]. Despite all the efforts made, year in, year out, we manage to balance departures and arrivals but not to gain a network of nursing staff who will settle permanently in Nièvre, ”he explains.
A 35 minute journey
The idea of the plane had been chosen to save time: “Some doctors have been coming regularly for years and have the courage to make this trip, but there is a whole fringe of them that we could mobilize except that they tell me: “Me, I really want to come quickly in the morning and go home in the evening to see my family, my children”. I can hear it. So either we do nothing, or we bring them closer to Dijon. And bringing them closer to Dijon is by plane, in 35 minutes. “Each rotation would represent 600 euros round trip per head.
Denis Thuriot finally went to the end of his idea. This Thursday, December 29, the elected official confirmed that the first flight would take off from Dijon-Longvic airport on Thursday, January 26 in the morning with a priori on board eight health professionals. “We are in the process of identifying both the needs of the Nivernais territory but also the volunteer health professionals in Dijon: doctors, midwives, nurses, interns, etc. »
The mayor of Nevers is currently putting together an emergency funding request from the Regional Health Agency and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. He assures that this first flight will take place no matter what. Nor does it rule out the future of increasing air rotations and the number of healthcare professionals involved.
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