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WE ALSO LOOK AT THE TIME NEEDED TO GET TO A PHARMACY AND OTHER HEALTH SERVICES WHEN COMPARED WITH AVERAGES FOR URBAN AREAS France’s vast rural areas sorely lack medical care, and aside from

a panoply of pharmacies, it can take far longer to find any form of care in the countryside than in towns according to a new study. Access to care is unevenly distributed in France, with

world class hospitals and specialist doctors available in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, and medical deserts in many rural areas. READ MORE: WHICH RURAL AREAS OF FRANCE ARE HARDEST HIT BY LACK

OF DOCTORS? Indeed, all rural areas have fewer doctors per 1,000 residents than for comparable populations in urban areas, and the doctors present are older on average, ACCORDING TO A 2021

REPORT BY THE ASSOCIATION OF FRENCH RURAL MAYORS. A new study, commissioned by the _Fédération hospitalière de France_ (FHF) underscores the problems rural residents face when trying to

access healthcare. While the difference in the time it takes for rural and urban patients to reach a pharmacy [from their respective homes] is only 2 minutes, this difference is 34 minutes

in the time it takes to get to hospital. READ MORE WHERE CAN YOU GET THE BEST SPECIALIST HEALTHCARE IN FRANCE? FRANCE RESIDENTS IN BETTER HEALTH THAN OTHER COUNTRIES, STUDY SHOWS