Emmanuel Macron, determined to continue his field trips despite the sling linked to the pension reform, goes to Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher) on Tuesday on the theme of health. The Head of State, accompanied by the Minister of Health, François Braun, will visit the city’s multidisciplinary university health center (MSPU).

He will discuss with the nursing staff on “the problems of access to care, attractiveness of the profession and training”, specified the Elysée, in a context of growing medical desertification on the territory. This health center is made up of doctors, midwives and nurses. In conjunction with the University of Tours, it trains young doctors every year.

To deal with medical desertification, Emmanuel Macron abolished the numerus clausus, which limited the training of new doctors, and doubled the number of health centers – there are 2,251 today in France – but the needs remain crying.

During his greetings to health actors on January 6, he promised to speed up the recruitment of medical assistants, who can perform simple acts to lighten the burden on doctors, and pledged that patients in ailment long-term care (ALD) without an attending physician will be offered one by the end of the year.

Emmanuel Macron, who has been very unpopular since the forced adoption of the pension reform, has announced his intention to “reengage” in all directions in the debate, with the stated desire to contact the French and appease the country of here on July 14th.

Very much behind during the review of the reform in Parliament, he resumed his travels in the region at the rate of two outings per week. The first two, in Bas-Rhin on Wednesday and in Hérault on Thursday, were greeted with boos.

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