2023-10-30 17:13:58
Access to reconstructive surgery is very unequal across the country, with increased difficulties in small towns and the countryside. Pradit – stock.adobe.com
Since the Covid crisis, the delays for having an operation at the public hospital have continued to lengthen.
Comment “regain self-confidence” et “go forward” when the page is not completely turned? Since the Covid crisis, many women who would like breast reconstruction after cancer are waiting. “Intervention times in public hospitals have lengthened, due to the delay accumulated during the pandemic and the lack of nurses in operating theaters”underlines Dr Isabelle Sarfati, plastic surgeon at the Breast Institute in Paris.
“After going through the ordeal of cancer, women who do not have the means to turn to the private sector (at a cost of around 1,500 euros) experience this wait as a double punishment.” Access to the Reconstructive surgery is also very unequal across the territory, with increased difficulties in small towns and the countryside.
Strong inequalities
Operated in November 2022 for breast cancer of genetic origin, Anissa was thus waiting “impatiently” an intervention scheduled for September 16…
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