2012 • 15' • French
Director(s): Laïla Agorram • Producer(s): Grand Angle Productions • Coproducer(s): France Télévisions • Format(s): HD
In French Polynesia the word has entered common parlance: to be “evasaner”. In other words to be evacuated for medical reasons. In a territory that is as big as Europe, distances mean that Emergency Medical teams must literally “fly” to the aid of the injured and the sick. A single medical system that is tending to grow at the expense of medical services on the islands. Fewer dispensaries on the remoter islands and a concentration of resources on the hospital complex in the capital, Papeete. When the nearest hospital is more than 1,500km away, it’s like flying out of Paris to aid a sick person in Bucharest! And to give birth, women sometimes have to start out for the maternity hospital a month before term. In every case, the plane is the only means of saving or delivering life.
