“There is no other city in metropolitan France that we help so much for its hospitals”, assures Emmanuel Macron

“There is no other city in metropolitan France that we help so much for its hospitals and caregivers“, assures Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, June 27 in an interview with France Bleu Provence, after having announced during his visit to the Marseille city “additional aid of 240 million euros to the AP-HM“, the hospitals of Marseilles.

The envelope will be used to modernize hospitals in Marseille, doubling the volume of its aid, Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday, on the second day of his visit to the city. “It was one of my commitments two years ago, and we opened a nursing home in the northern districts“, he explains.

A city “with a lot of challenges”

The President of the Republic also believes that “Marseille is a city that concentrates difficulties, promises (…) Difficulties, because it is the second largest city in France, extraordinarily large, larger than Greater Paris“. According to him, it is “a city which has a lot of challenges, which has accumulated problems in the past, which has not invested enough in its schools, which has transport difficulties“.

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“At the same time, it is a city that holds absolutely incredible promise“, continued Emmanuel Macron, citing in particular “the youth” And “the Mediterranean“, because “it is one of the youngest cities in France and it has an opening on the Mediterranean which is incredible. I kinda want to try to get out of anger in the face of helplessness. The best way is to try to turn it into positive energy“.