2024-09-06 14:46:31
It is a new, informal way of alerting that many rural mayors have decided to use, faced with the problems of access to care which hit their areas hard. In Brittany, from June, the fifty-five councils of Côtes-d’Armor have issued a decree that aims to respond to “a crisis of public order” sparked about “A health grant is clearly not enough to guarantee equal access to health [leurs] we manage ».
They called the State to put it here “Emergency Health Access Program” and that “continue with staff and resources in the department’s general hospitals”under penalty of a fine of 1,000 euros per day. At the end of August, the Mayor (left wing) of Digne-les-Bains followed the movement, signing a similar order, as did around thirty Mayors of his department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
The legal process seems to have limited chances of success, but the method is also determined to be political. “We always mobilize for our hospital services in Carhaix [Finistère]in Lanion [Côtes-d’Armor]in Guingamp [Côtes-d’Armor]But it is in vain, there is no discussion with the local health center, the ministry, the State… we want to change our way of doing things”explained Gaël Roblin, elected (liberal left) to the city council of Guingamp, at the beginning of the road. “It has been a year and a half since the maternity hospital of Guingamp was closed, refers to Vincent le Meaux, one of the signature mayors and president of the Guingamp-Paimpol agglomeration. It is regrettable to have to go to court, but we finally want to get answers, reconciliation. »
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However, the State did not follow through: as part of the legal review, the administrator of Côtes-d’Armor referred the orders to the administrative court, requesting their cancellation. The first hearing in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), Wednesday September 3, in which fifteen mayors were called, saw the general correspondent submitted to the prefect. According to his comments reported by Agence France-Presse: orders will be “illegal”the mayors having “Beyond their police force”. Around ten other Breton councils are called next week, while the first decision is expected in mid-September.
In these strategic issues, the same argument is developed: access to care is a “Priority” respect for dignity, and the absence of corrective measures to ensure it “It really hurts human dignity and it’s really a disturbance of public order”. Mayor unusual “Administrative Police Command”therefore he can give such an order to end this trouble.
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