Every day, Manon Mella gives voice to young people aged 18-30. Monday January 3, meeting with Elodie, teacher and director of a country school in Sarthe.
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Direction Villaines-sous-Lucé, a small Sarthois village of 700 inhabitants where Elodie, 28, a teacher and director of a country school, lives. She welcomed us to her house, still under construction, located at the end of a long path in the middle of the fields. That day, Elodie announces that her attending physician, the last one in the area, has just retired. Fighting against medical deserts: that’s part of what she expects the presidential candidates to do.
“My doctor is retiring today. We no longer have dentists, it’s very complicated. It’s scary.”
Elodie, 28 years oldto franceinfo
According to the Sarthe branch of the AssAssociation of citizens against medical deserts (ACCDM), Sarthe is the fourth most underprivileged department with six doctors per 10,000 inhabitants. This situation worries the young teacher and school principal who is expecting her second child. “We wonder how we are going to take care of ourselves. If we have tonsillitis, we will be tempted to self-medicate or wait and it will get worse. Politically, this is a very important point for me. The shortage of doctors and access to employment are two difficult things in the countryside “.
Another campaign, the presidential one: “For the moment, I find it unclear because there are a lot of people who apply but we do not really know their projects. I can’t see.“
“We expect a president to represent us and without pots and pans.”
Elodie, 28 years oldto franceinfo
As a teacher and school principal, Élodie would like to hear more about education. If she does not prefer to say who she will vote for in 2022 because “it’s something nobodyl “, she says she is sensitive to ecology, health, purchasing power and safety. If she were president, Elodie would invest in schools and hospitals.”We must also put a boost now on ecology“, she concludes.