The vagueness persists in Mayotte around the holding of a possible vast operation of expulsions of foreigners without papers, baptized “Wuambushu”, which could mobilize nearly a thousand gendarmes and police officers. This plan, still unconfirmed by the Ministry of the Interior, would aim to expel more than 10,000 illegal immigrants in two months and to destroy numerous slums. Some associations are worried, while health professionals challenge the government.
With our correspondent in the region, Lola Fourmy
It is an operation supported by the elected representatives of Mahorais, like the deputy Estelle Yousoupha, who describes it as a response to a ” security, health and social emergency “. However, the side effects of these evictions and destruction of slums worry caregivers in Mayotte.
They are 170 to have signed a forum sent to the ministries. Among them, Hugo Martinière, an anesthesiologist in intensive care at Mamoudzou hospital. ” What we fear is that the healthcare system will be impacted, both for people in a regular situation and for those in an irregular situation. And we fear that patients (…) will be caught in the mass of referrals and that there will be a real loss of medical chances for them. »
The risk of infection is also high because the population – legal or illegal – already plans to stay sheltered, confined. Except that access to water, already complicated in Mayotte, is likely to get worse with the destruction of at least three slums. Thousands of residents do not know for the moment where they would be relocated.
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