2024-01-18 09:00:02
Due to a lack of sufficient or appropriate healthcare provision in their territory, some patients are forced to seek treatment far from home or in another country. These medical evacuations also concern expatriates and can be carried out by ambulance, or by plane, in order to allow the patient to reach a health facility as quickly as possible. A high cost delivery which effectively excludes many patients.
This situation is sometimes criticized, in the sense that it favors a two-tier health system. How do medical evacuations work? For what illnesses do we come for treatment in Paris or Lausanne, when we live in Lagos or Kinshasa?
Dr. Massamba Sassoum Diopemergency physician and president of SOS-doctors in Dakar in Senegal. Emergency doctor at the SAMU de l’Essonne in the Paris region, former president of the Senegalese Society of Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine Dr Ange Dodji Dossoutechnical advisor to the Minister of Health of Benin for Hospital Medicine Dominique Taokomedical director ofEurop Assistance France Report fromIgor Strauss.
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