General tour. Two days following the presentation by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne of the five-year plan for gender equality, the Minister of Health and Prevention, François Braun, visited establishments in Cannes yesterday. Since this plan makes women’s health “a priority axis”he discussed with the professionals and volunteers mobilized in the city of festivals.
First stop at the Simone-Veil hospital where the Minister conducted a quick tour of the services: passages through the permanence of access to health care (PASS), the free center for information, screening and diagnosis (CeGIDD) infectious and tropical diseases, gynecology-obstetrics, maternity or even the outpatient psycho-perinatal unit (UAPP).
Simone-Veil, “a beautiful organization” of care
At each stop, François Braun took a few minutes to chat with the teams; not hiding, in particular, his pleasant surprise concerning the number of midwives: “You manage to keep them all? You must not be many in this case…”
Visit which ended with a “round table” of a few minutes with several doctors and department heads. “My method remains the same: I come to the field because, already, that’s where I feel good.he said at the end of the exchanges. Then, it allows me to identify, alongside the teams, what is being done around women’s health and how to duplicate it elsewhere. Here, at Simone-Veil, I see a great organization and a complete chain, from the moment of care.”
Thirty additional “Women’s Heart Buses”
The minister then went to the Les Bosquets mental health day hospital. As a reminder, on March 3, François Braun announced an envelope of 25 million euros for the “great challenge” of digital mental health. Which should make it possible to develop new care methods (digital therapy in particular) and new digital awareness-raising media.
François Braun concluded his day in Cannes with the visit of the “Women’s Heart Bus” at La Bocca. Launched in 2021 by the Agir pour le cœur des femmes foundation, it crisscrosses France to raise awareness of cardiovascular diseases (the leading cause of female mortality, with nearly 200 deaths every day) and offer free screenings. An initiative that obviously benefits the Minister of Health, since he announced “that thirty additional buses of this type will be deployed initially, to go to the people furthest from care.”
