Last Thursday evening, with exceptional authorization from the Prefecture, the management of the Louis Constant Fleming Hospital Center invited the press, the medical profession and officials to inaugurate the long-awaited chemotherapy service in the territory.
The Director General of the Center Hospitalier Louis Constant Fleming, Marie-Antoinette Lampis, began her speech by emphasizing the pride of having kept this promise made to the patients concerned. The Central Cytotoxic Reconstitution Unit (namely the chemotherapy department) was indeed eagerly awaited by cancer patients in the northern islands who previously had to travel to Guadeloupe for their treatment. The unfailing will and determination of Doctor Laruelle-Henaux, medical oncologist and project leader, were welcomed and warmly applauded. Without her or Marie-Agnès Opsomer, head of the pharmacy department, or even the entire team of caregivers, this unit would not have seen the light of day. The construction of a service like this requires the respect and application of certain standards, the process to obtain the authorizations was a long one. The unit opened its doors on November 24, 2021, welcoming its first patient who received her chemotherapy treatment with great emotion. The realization of this service required the investment of 1,3 million euros by the State via the Regional Health Agency (ARS), represented by its director, Valérie Denux. The adventure began in 2004 with the first report mentioning the development of oncology. With the arrival of Doctor Laruelle-Henaux in 2017, the first authorization application for cancer treatment activity was launched. In 2018, a collaboration agreement with the Center Hospitalier de Basse-Terre (CHBT) was signed. Several authorization requests were refused by the ARS until 2020 when the fourth was the right one. 2021 will mark the start of the URCC's fitting-out work until the reception and qualification of the unit last November. Doctor Laruelle-Henaux concluded his speech, moved, with a quote from Siddhartha Mukherjee "The fight against cancer is a human story: an adventure full of discoveries due to chance, of opportunities seized at the right time but above all a celebration of the tenacity of men. »… and, as far as this unity is concerned, above all the tenacity of women. _VX
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