The mayor of the commune Grell in the French Loire, Isabelle Dujel, made a decree prohibiting residents from dying at home on weekends and holidays, according to the commune’s website..
The decree was introduced in order to draw attention to the lack of doctors in the commune..
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Dujele clarifies that the problem is associated with an extreme shortage of specialists and needs immediate resolution.
CNews notes that the mayor made this decision after last Sunday she had to look for a specialist who would confirm the death of one of the residents of the commune, since the attending physician was not on duty, and the ambulance was subordinate to another commune, where. They managed to find a doctor only in the neighboring district, but, as the TV channel notes, the mayor decided that she was not ready to relive the situation again and adopted an appropriate decree to draw attention to the problem.