Question 5410 — health professions

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Ms. Ersilia Soudais draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, responsible for health and access to care, to the current shortage of speech therapists. The lack of approved speech therapists reveals a real difficulty in accessing care, particularly for children who require rapid care. Waiting times for an appointment are only getting longer, which can reach up to three years of waiting, which forces families to turn to non-approved practitioners. This alternative generates additional financial costs, jeopardizing equal access to care. A family from Dammartin-en-Goële (77), whose 5-year-old child suffers from a language defect, had to give up their summer vacation in order to finance appointments with a non-approved speech therapist, alone practitioner available in their surroundings. This same 5-year-old child, faced with a physical problem, is likely to be sidelined and risks social isolation as well as teasing due to the lack of appropriate care. This concrete example results from this shortage of speech therapists that citizens are experiencing. This is not a local problem but a national one: the lack of attractiveness of the profession, the weak remuneration, the absence of internship sites for students as well as the workload make the profession less and less viable. She asks him what concrete measures he intends to implement to compensate for this shortage and guarantee equitable access to care.

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