France Bleu is organizing the first major debate in the regional elections in Occitanie this Tuesday evening, just three weeks before the poll. In the radio studio, six of the nine candidates for the presidency of the Occitanie region will debate, between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., on our antenna. An event to follow also on Facebook Live in video and on our social networks. Two themes were selected for this debate. It is about transport, and health.
Health at the heart of the debate
The health crisis has demonstrated the need to decentralize health decisions to be closer to the field. Some candidates have already formulated proposals to fight against medical deserts. Like the outgoing president Carole Delga who proposes to hire 200 doctors and nurses to install them in medical deserts.
Medical deserts rhyme with public service desert, it is a major obstacle to installation
What do the main stakeholders think? We submitted this proposal to medical students. For Nicolas Lunel, vice-president of a student organization in Toulouse, the prospect of salaried work does not put him off. But he wonders about the real effectiveness of such a measure. According to him, the problem will remain the same in rural areas: “A doctor is like any other employee. If we are offered a job that is two hours away, with the first store 45 minutes away and the first post office one hour away, that doesn’t appeal. Medical deserts rhyme with public service desert, it is a major obstacle to installation. “
Not against the creation of a student grant, but …
This proposal carried by Carole Delga was qualified as “medieval measure” and “absurd” by his opponent on the right, Aurélien Pradié, LR candidate who promises him the creation of a student grant of 700 euros per month. “In itself, we are not against the creation of a scholarship especially in this period of health crisis where student insecurity is really very present “, reacts Sarah Loretz, future doctor and student representative in Toulouse who wants to remain cautious. “We are putting a point of vigilance on what this grant will imply for the student and for his future professional.” According to the latest news, the counterpart of the payment of this scholarship provides that the beneficiary must undertake to work for at least three years in the territories lacking a doctor.
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