Question 17782 — medicine

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Ms. Julie Laernoes draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity, responsible for health and prevention, to the sustainability of home medical visits, currently threatened with disappearance by conventional negotiations with health insurance. Already today, home medical visits suffer from a shortage of volunteer doctors, with the vast majority favoring fixed consultations, without travel, for obvious financial reasons. However, these visits are essential for many people who cannot travel and go to a medical office for consultation, particularly in rural areas. However, SOS Médecins emphasizes that the conventional negotiations between professionals and health insurance do not provide for an increase in prices, recently granted to attending physicians, for home visits. This failure to increase these prices risks accentuating the already observed reduction in medical visits at home, both day and night, or even simply making them disappear, thus further weakening the most vulnerable populations in society. Such a disappearance of medical visits at home would cause additional influx to the hospital emergencies already in high demand. Faced with medical deserts, in a country where delays in accessing care continue to lengthen, where emergencies are overloaded, home visits are essential, particularly for fragile and isolated populations. Also, she intends to know her position on this issue.

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