If you ask the mayor of La Brigue, a village in the Roya valley, what “medical desertification” means, he will be able to answer you and have the right examples. Daniel Alberti is indeed faced with the lack of doctors. There are none in his town and its inhabitants have to go to the next village to find a doctor. generalist who moreover is not even permanently there but only present during sporadic hotlines. this paradox of a populated area on the seaside, provided with medical services and hospital centers and of a middle and high country in the grip of a medical vacuum, without public services.
medical desertification a poignant reality in La Brigue
