Question 16302 — health

Summary

Mr. Jacques Oberti draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the crisis of access to dermatological care which is affecting the entire national territory and more particularly the Occitanie region and the department of Haute-Garonne. France today has only around 2,848 dermatologists for 68 million inhabitants, or 3.25 specialists per 100,000 inhabitants, very far from the recommended threshold of 5 to 6 per 100,000 inhabitants. This structural shortage causes average waiting times of several months, which can exceed a year in certain areas (477 days in Montauban, for example). These delays are not without consequences: they result in diagnostic delays, interruptions in follow-up and forgoing care which constitutes a daily loss of opportunity for millions of patients. In Occitanie, the situation is particularly worrying. Haute-Garonne is the only department in the region to reach the threshold of 5 dermatologists per 100,000 inhabitants, creating an influx of patients from the entire region, or even from neighboring departments such as Lot-et-Garonne or Pyrénées-Atlantiques. This island of care in the middle of a vast medical desert is not enough to meet the demand where the agendas of practitioners are also saturated for many months. However, this situation concerns a major public health issue: 200,000 new skin cancers are diagnosed each year in France and nearly 20 million people live with a chronic and disabling skin pathology. In May 2025, the WHO adopted a resolution making skin diseases a global public health priority. Encourage patients to consult any doubt, as prevention campaigns do, only makes sense if effective access to a dermatologist is guaranteed. However, the problem is structural: in 2025, only 102 dermatology interns have been trained, including 3 positions 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. Without strong action, the continued decline in the number of dermatologists by 2030 will make this situation even worse. In this sense, in December 2025, a collective of dermatologists launched a citizen petition recognized by the National Assembly, calling for an ambitious training plan, support for existing territorial organizations and the creation of a dedicated ministerial mission. He therefore asks what concrete measures the Government intends to take to remedy this specialized medical desertification and whether it considers the creation of a ministerial mission dedicated to access to dermatological care, bringing together patient representatives, parliamentarians and health professionals, in order to put an end to this breakdown in equality in access to care which primarily penalizes the most vulnerable populations.

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