Question 13321 — medicine

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Mr. Christophe Barthès alerts the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Disabled People to the urgency of increasing the number of neurologists in Occitania. Like the rest of the territory, the Occitanie region suffers from a major deficit of neurologists given the growing needs of the population. The Occitanie region is proportionally older than the entire territory (19.8% of inhabitants over 65 years old compared to 17.1% in the scale of the metropolis) and neurology constitutes a central public health issue. That's one person suffering a stroke every 36 minutes in this region alone. However, neurology must also treat and help patients with multiple sclerosis, neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy and other disorders of the nervous system. This shortage of neurologists will lead to inevitably an increase in the overall cost of care. There are currently almost 20% vacant positions in Occitania, affecting both public hospitals and private practice, and replacements and recruitments have become impossible due to a lack of candidates. This difficulty fundamentally results from a national decision to maintain too few intern positions in neurology. For example, still in Occitania, the The number of positions remained at only 10 interns in 2025-2026, as has been the case for 10 years. This alarming observation is also shared by the ARS Occitanie, which had proposed to be a pilot region in the autonomy of the distribution of intern positions by specialty, a proposal which was refused. To guarantee equitable access to acute and chronic neurological care in Occitanie, he asks her what measures she will implement. place to increase the number of neurology intern positions and whether it will subsequently support the request from ARS Occitanie to manage the distribution of intern positions by specialty.

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1. 3 March 2026

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