The order of doctors of Vaucluse fears a medical desert with the Faubourg d’Avignon plan
The order of doctors of Vaucluse asks the mayor of Avignon to be attentive to the health of the people of Avignon with the Plan Faubourg. Doctors have written to the order of doctors to discuss the traffic difficulties since the boulevards Monod and Sixte Isnard have been made one-way. Heavy traffic jams are forming every day. Doctors point to the impossibility of moving to the homes of their patients. They feel that some patients could no longer come to doctors’ offices. The order of doctors warns against the possible creation of a medical desert with the application of this faubourg plan which must prevent transit traffic in the districts between avenue Pierre Semard and avenue Eisenhower in Avignon.
Risk of medical desert
The order of doctors will write to the mayor to alert her. Doctor Bernard Arbomont fears the appearance of a new medical desert: “We already have this medical desert in the intramuros of Avignon with difficulties in getting around. Patients are finding fewer and fewer treating physicians. If the Samu and the firefighters cannot move in a reasonable time, it is an immediate vital risk”.
For the firefighters of Vaucluse, no comments on this risk. firefighters say emergency vehicles have priority on bus or tram lanes and that motorists must give way when they see the flashing lights.
For her part, the opposition municipal councilor and leader of the RN group in Avignon calls for a moratorium on the faubourg plan to the prefect of Vaucluse. Anne-Sophie Rigault wants this moratorium, she writes “the time that the mayor of Avignon orders a real traffic study (the last dates back to the 2000s) and simultaneously organizes a public consultation in which all the actors of the City will be associated“.