“Protecting the health of citizens means above all training future professionals in sufficient numbers.” Christian Estrosi calls on the Ministers of Health and Higher Education, François Braun and Sylvie Retailleau, so that the Faculty of Medicine of Nice can accommodate more interns in 2024.
“Of the 686 interns that the Regional Health Agency is about to request, we learn that 487 would be deployed in Marseille. Nice, 5th city in France, would be entitled to train 199 interns, while Dijon (158,000 inhabitants) trains 261 internal, Poitiers (89,000 inhabitants) in 261″ formwrites the mayor in a press release published on April 19.
Very insufficient in relation to the requests made by the University of Nice Côte d’Azur, judges the elected official who is also chairman of the board of directors of the CHU.
He asks “as a matter of urgency that the number of interns be increased to 245 and that the weighting be reviewed between our two major cities, Nice and Marseille, for the years to come”.
And to plead: “It is not a luxury, it is a question of meeting training needs, but also of anticipating future retirements: more than half of the doctors established in our territory are between 60 and 74 years old. The need for care in our region is increasingly important in the face of a rapidly growing elderly population consuming care.”
A first request remained unanswered
Christian Estrosi sounds the alarm: “Our territory is already suffering the consequences of these choices: the number of doctors in training in Nice is insufficient to ensure the medicalization of the Nice University Hospital and the Hospital Centers of the subdivision (Cannes, Antibes, Grasse, Menton, Draguignan, Fréjus as well as Corsica) Many sectors are in difficulty, with delays in making appointments of more than six months in both the public and private sectors, the impossibility of caring for new patients in certain specialties of general hospitals, the saturation of emergencies and very few doctors who participate in the permanence of care.
He hopes to be heard by the government. Last July, he had already stepped up and made the same request: he had only received “no answer, no argument”.