The short sequence, filmed on Friday, has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and generated many reactions. Thursday and Friday in Evron (Mayenne), hundreds of people waited sometimes several hours to register with the new general practitioner who had just been installed in this department where access to care is particularly difficult.
According to France Blue Mayenne, which broadcast the famous video, the first patients, sometimes elderly, arrived at 9:30 a.m., while registration only started in the afternoon. It must be said that three doctors in the town retired last June, leaving many residents without a doctor.
“France, a third world country”
“Thanks to Macron, France, a third world country, reacted Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Twitter. Shortage, disorder, lack of everything. “How to better express in images the reality of medical deserts, for his part wrote the PS deputy from Mayenne Guillaume Garot. Finally find effective solutions for a better distribution of our doctors throughout France. »
In total, the new practitioner must take care of 500 patients. A third doctor is expected in the coming months in this same health center.