SERVICE GENS DE MER - PLAISANCIERS
The Marseille Service de Santé des Gens de Mer (SSGM) is a preventive medicine service that looks after the health and medical fitness of professional seafarers in the fishing and trade sectors. It is headed by a doctor from the Direction Générale des Affaires Maritimes (DGAMPA), and acts as liaison between the DGAMPA, the Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées (DCSSA) and the ENIM. Another doctor is in charge of the maritime occupational health and safety office, responsible for regulatory developments and drawing up the annual report on occupational accidents and diseases in the maritime environment. At regional level, twenty doctors, accompanied by nurses, are distributed along the coast in the deconcentrated maritime affairs departments. They provide consultations at 48 consultation points, covering a more or less extensive area depending on the number of seafarers and the distances involved. Temporary doctors are also on call at affaires maritimes offices in outlying areas such as Bastia, Ajaccio and Ciboure. Agreements have also been signed with occupational medicine departments and doctors in practice in the French overseas departments and territories.
