Consultation. Health: almost everyone complains
Of the nearly 1,000 responses received, we found that only 16% of respondents felt they had "normal" access to healthcare. Access was either very complicated for 40.9% of them, or even impossible for 13%.
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However, only 17.7% of respondents did not have a primary care physician , which remains enormous in a country which introduced the care pathway in 2007, with the obligation to go through a primary care physician to be reimbursed 100% of costs.
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But in the details of the grievances, access to specialists is increasingly cited as a difficulty. Some, especially in rural areas, no longer hesitate to travel more than 100 km to consult an ophthalmologist, gynecologist, or cardiologist (43% of respondents).
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Worse, 70.5% of respondents to our consultation admitted to having already "given up on treatment" because it was "too complicated", "hopeless", or because the "delays were too long".
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Private practice tops the list of challenges cited by those consulted in our regions. Hospitals are rarely criticized, and primarily due to the waiting time for emergency care. Rarely is it criticized for the quality of care.
To make sense of these figures and understand how the health system has come to be perceived as distant, even unattainable by our fellow citizens, we interviewed doctors, both private and hospital , who are experiencing the same difficulties, but from their point of view.
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