Question 4288 — health professions

Summary

Mr. Christian Girard alerts the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to the shortage of veterinarians in rural areas. In many French departments and particularly in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the shortage of veterinarians is increasing from year to year. This situation has serious consequences, more than half of veterinary structures seek to recruit staff, in vain. If the The arduousness of night and weekend shifts is not the only reason for this recruitment difficulty; it regularly comes up as an “argument” for not following up on the applications that veterinary centers receive. Furthermore, many current employees are tempted to stop working in rural areas and move to denser urban areas where the majority of interventions concern “classic” pets. In these territories, specific structures for guards exist and take over at night. Unfortunately, this type of scheme is not compatible with rural areas which require the veterinarian to travel at night to intervene on a cow's cesarean section or a mare's colic, for example. The urgency is recruitment in order to relieve the management of continuity of care night and on Sundays and public holidays. Even if solutions exist, such as the establishment of telephone regulation platforms for emergency calls, it is not sufficient to ensure on-call duty in areas less well equipped with structures or personnel. Also, he asks him what incentive measures he is considering to encourage the installation of new veterinarians in these less well-off departments. provided, in order to finally ensure the necessary care for animals and safeguard animal welfare.

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