A municipal public health service: neighbourhood health centres

Thousands of people forgo care: doctor shortages, delays, cost, lack of follow-up. Territorial inequalities are widening.

Measures:

• Create / strengthen municipal health centres (general practice, nurses, midwives as needed, prevention) with third-party payment and no extra charges.
• Priority for under-served neighbourhoods and those most likely to forgo care.
• Adapted opening hours (evenings / Saturdays where relevant) + coordination with hospital and private practitioners.

Prevent rather than repair: municipal prevention plan

We arrive too late: diabetes, hypertension, dental health, screenings. Prevention is lacking, especially where life is hardest.

Measures:

• Outreach screening and prevention campaigns: markets, neighbourhoods, events, community spaces.
• Prevention pathways in municipal centres: screenings, vaccination, dental health, addiction support (referral), nutrition, sexual health.
• Outreach: identification and follow-up for people without a GP.

Mental health: a municipal priority, especially for young people

Anxiety, depression, isolation: waiting times are exploding, families are at a loss, young people are falling through the cracks.

Measures:

• Local listening and support points (young people, parents, students), with rapid referral.
• Strengthen access to consultations (psychologists / mental health nurses linked to existing structures).
• Anti-isolation actions: resource spaces, prevention in schools and associations.

Support Human Santé and sustain these structures

Health centres like Human Santé meet a vital need but their model is weakened by precarious funding.

Measures:

• Support Human Santé and durably embed funding for these centres in the LFSS.
• Build a municipal alliance: administrative support, agreements, networking (CCAS, prevention, mental health, rights access).
• Develop this type of structure across the city: multidisciplinary centres, mediation, outreach prevention.

Combating addictions: harm reduction + health bus

Addictions (drugs, alcohol, medication) are a major public health issue. The response cannot be purely punitive: we must treat, protect, and support.

Measures:

• A care and harm-reduction bus: a mobile unit going to people with health and social professionals to prevent risks, identify and refer to care, and support pathways out of dependency.
• Networking with the hospital, addiction services, associations, and CCAS.

Access to rights and care: one-stop shop + health mediation

Even when services exist, many people get lost: misunderstood rights, complex procedures, isolation, language barriers, broken care pathways.

Measures:

• A municipal "rights & health" one-stop shop (CCAS / associations / CPAM / ARS): rights activation, appointments, referral.
• Health mediation: support for people in extreme poverty, isolated seniors, young people without follow-up.
• Interpretation when needed, so that health does not depend on French language proficiency.

Environmental health: air, heat, noise, housing

Air pollution, heat waves, noise, substandard housing: health is also shaped by urban planning, housing, and public space.

Measures:

• An environmental health plan: protecting schools and crèches, fighting urban heat islands, reducing noise, monitoring exposures.
• Direct link to housing: identification of damp / mould / unsanitary conditions, support and interventions.
• Strengthened "heat wave" scheme: identifying vulnerable people, accessible cool spaces, visits and calls.

Women's health: real access to care and prevention

Delayed diagnoses, lack of follow-up, unequal access (gynaecology, screenings), period poverty, violence.

Measures:

• Dedicated pathways: prevention, screenings, support in municipal centres.
• Fighting period poverty: free access in municipal facilities.
• Strengthened and confidential referral for victims of violence, with support.

No to the plastics incinerator in Montpellier!

A plastics waste incinerator is planned in the Croix d'Argent neighbourhood, set to burn 30,000 to 45,000 tonnes of plastics per year. This would be a first in France — and a public-health time bomb.

Burning plastic releases toxic substances into the air we breathe every day: furans, dioxins, heavy metals (arsenic, mercury, lead), PFAS forever chemicals. Residents within a two-kilometre radius — GaroSud, Prés d'Arènes, Les Grisettes, Les Sabines, Ovalie, Croix d'Argent, Maurin, and Lattes — will be directly exposed.

Position: immediate abandonment of this project and adoption of an ambitious local plan for waste reduction and recovery, based on reduction, sorting, reuse, and the circular economy.