Twice a week, the NGO "Médecins du Monde" goes to a vacant lot in the Parisian suburbs where a hundred Romanians have lived for four years. Without water or sanitation and in the cold, the first victims are children. During consultations, doctors make the same observation: pathologies arise from living conditions. The role of volunteer doctors is to treat but also to help these families in the administrative procedures to obtain care, including the AME (State Medical Aid). Testimony of a young Roma woman and two doctors.
Thanks to the State Medical Aid (AME), undocumented people have free access to care. But a law has just been passed that requires them to prove their residence in France. For doctors the argument of reducing expenses is inadmissible, the risk being that patients return to the hospital emergency room, already overwhelmed. Testimonies of doctors at the hospital of La Grave in Toulouse.
An update on the Aide médicale de l'État (AME), a device that allows undocumented people to receive 100% free treatment. However, this device is often accused of generating streams of patients who would come to France for treatment. The State is therefore questioning its funding, which costs 1 billion euros, and has just launched an information mission on the subject.
Since 1 January 2011 the State Medical Aid (AME) has been revised. This reform aims in theory to improve prevention, medical monitoring and access to care without waiting for the worsening of pathologies. But it raises the concern of Alsatian activists such as CIMADE, CASAS and "Paroles sans frontière".
The reform of the State Medical Aid (AME), recently voted by Parliament and which now requires beneficiaries to pay a user fee and the hospital fee, is making teeth grind. Example in Toulouse with the testimony of Agnès, an Ivorian woman in an irregular situation (face hidden) who suffers from an unknown skin disease. With this reform, she will not be able to pay for her medicines, an average of 80 euros per week.
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