Mamoudzou (AFP)
The former environment minister Dominique Voynet, who will soon take the lead of the future Regional Health Agency of Mayotte, said on Wednesday worried including the neonatal service of the hospital, saturated, during a meeting with the press.
Dominique Voynet will take the reins of the future ARS from 1 January 2020. Until now, Mayotte depended on the ARS of the Indian Ocean, based in Reunion. But at the end of the social movement that had paralyzed the island for more than two months in 2018, Édouard Philippe had acceded in April to one of the demands of the population to have a full-service LRA.
On Wednesday, the inspector general of social affairs, who had been charged in 2016-2017 with a health needs assessment mission in the 101st department, said that her mission was to improve the supply of health care and services. enhance the attractiveness for health professionals.
"The issue that concerns me the most right now is the issue of neonatology, one of the most saturated and most difficult services of the hospital," she explained.
The motherhood of the Mamoudzou hospital is the largest in France, with nearly 10,000 births each year (9,590 in 2018, according to the latest INSEE figures), for many mothers from neighboring Comoros, who are often in an irregular situation.
Dominique Voynet emphasized the need to limit the impact of irregular arrivals of irregular migrants on the functioning of the hospital. "We must organize to better manage flows, to decide who to take priority (...), but also say what should be treated in the Comoros," she said, recalling that France has mobilized 44 million over three years to improve the Comoros health system.
While the Minister of Overseas, Annick Girardin, had raised in April 2018 a possible extraterritorial status for Mamoudzou hospital, Dominique Voynet has denied any project. "Nobody talks about it because it does not exist, we will not put an extraterritorial hospital in Mayotte," she said.
More broadly, Dominique Voynet also wants to catch up with Mayotte in terms of medico-social facilities, reception of the elderly, care of disabled people and their families.
"Before healing, the conditions must be met for people to become less sick," she said, citing water quality, the problem of waste, the quality of the air, the conditions for drinking. ?food.
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