Question 16253 — medicine

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Ms. Marine Hamelet questions the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities about the shortage of dermatologists and the collapse of access to dermatological care, which affects the entire national territory and, in particular, rural departments such as Tarn-et-Garonne. France has only around 2,848 dermatologists for 68 million inhabitants, or 3.25 specialists per 100,000 inhabitants, while the recommendations set the threshold at 5 to 6 per 100,000. In Tarn-et-Garonne, a department of around 265,000 inhabitants, only two private dermatologists practice, forcing many patients to wait more than a year before obtaining an appointment. This situation creates a breakdown in equality in terms of access to care, primarily penalizing the elderly, dependent people or people with reduced mobility. It generates a real loss of concrete opportunity, in a context where 200,000 new skin cancers are diagnosed each year in France and where nearly 20 million people live with a chronic and disabling skin pathology. The WHO also adopted a resolution in May 2025 making skin diseases a global public health priority. The problem is structural: in 2025, only 102 dermatology residents will have been trained overall of the territory, including only 3 at the Toulouse University Hospital, while the needs are estimated at at least 150 per year for ten years to begin to respond to the current demographic crisis and compensate for retirements. Without strong action, projections for 2030 place France in a very unfavorable situation compared to its European neighbors in terms of dermatological care provision. In December 2025, a collective of dermatologists launched a citizen petition recognized by the National Assembly to request an ambitious training plan, support for existing territorial organizations and the creation of a ministerial mission dedicated to access to dermatological care. She asks him if the Government intends to follow up on this citizens' petition and, in particular, if it is considering the creation of a ministerial mission dedicated to access to care. dermatological, bringing together patient representatives, parliamentarians and health professionals, in order to put an end to the loss of luck that has become daily for millions of patients.

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