"We don't want to die because we lack doctors": for 24 hours, they ski to combat medical desertification

More than a dozen inhabitants of the municipality of Villefagnan (Charente) took turns for 24 hours practicing skiErg, cross-country skiing. The objective of this sporting challenge, shed light on their communal health home and fight against medical desertification.

In the face of the shortage of general practitioners in rural areas, an association organizes a weekly rotation of doctors from all over France. A transitional solution, at a time when the medical demography is in the hollow of the wave. The eighth health centre of this type was created in February 2025 in the Lot-et-Garonne.

In the face of the shortage of general practitioners in rural areas, an association organizes a weekly rotation of doctors from all over France. A transitional solution, at a time when the medical demography is in the hollow of the wave. The eighth health centre of this type was created in February 2025 in the Lot-et-Garonne.

In order to combat medical desertification, a dozen Villefagnanais have practiced cross-country skiing for 24 hours at the health care home in an overflying atmosphere.

An evening was organised to celebrate the first anniversary of the structure and to announce the right figures in November 2023. In Beauvais, SOS Médecins has been very much in demand since its installation. Signs that the number of doctors is still insufficient in the prefecture city of Oise. But the city is not the only one concerned. So SOS Médecins has launched a service of home visits. On Saturday, March 29, Florent Jendrzejewski, the presi…