While vacationing in Bali, Mathilda May contracted the dengue fever virus.
This disease transmitted by mosquitoes can lead to more or less severe flu-like illnesses.
The actress, who gave relatively reassuring news on her Instagram account, nevertheless had to be hospitalized on the spot before being repatriated in the coming days.
In a long message on her favorite social network, the actress, who has worked with Claude Chabrol, Georges Lautner, Claude Zidi and Jacques Demy in particular, took the opportunity, immobilized on her hospital bed, to praise our system. of health, but also to come back to the lack of consideration from which our carers are currently suffering: "(...)
As I slowly come back to my senses, I think of the chance of being French, but also by association of ideas with this crisis in our country's health sector (which has been crushing my heart for years) and the non-consideration of successive public authorities vis-à-vis the hospital world and its caregivers when we have an exceptional system...
".
A plea for the French health system
The actress, who in 2019 received the Molière for best direction for her play
Le Banquet
, has indeed found that in Indonesia, without sufficient means and without social security, her viral infection might not have been able to be cared for as it should be: “(
...
)
It is clear that where I am, without mutual insurance, I would not have had access to this overpriced hospital (imagine with the local salaries…) It is therefore the great luxury here of being able to be treated in hospital, as in many other countries, alas.
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Today, Mathilda May, thinks that our health care system - "of
which France has always been able to be proud
" - is weakened.
The last words of her comment on Instagram look like a real plea to defend our health philosophy which she believes is very threatened: “
Access to care for ALL is the basis of a just society.
We must preserve this essential and exemplary human value at all costs.
Beyond political divisions, I am talking here about equity, fraternity and ethics.
France must remain this noble country which protects these citizens from the barbarism of an absurd world where the door is closed to the sick without money.
Let's defend the hospitals that are screaming and dying of not being heard.
".
The Banquet
by Mathilda May, Molière 2019 for the staging