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Commemorative banner of the departure of the May 13, 2024 insurgency, in Poya (New Caledonia), August 13, 2024.

“The social situation of New Caledonia worries me a lot”stated the abroad minister Manuel Valls, on the finish of his final go to to Nouméa, 1er april. Almost a yr after the explosion of violence of May 13, 2024, which accompanied the mobilization of the separatists, the inhabitants of New Caledonia stay deeply marked, particularly because the financial disaster is rooted. The impression of occasions on their psychological well being is simply starting to look.

Presented on March 31, a survey carried out by the Quidnovi Institute, on the finish of 2024, for the Federation of Liberal Health Professionals in New Caledonia, out of 600 respondents amongst 3,000 professionals in apply, reveals that just about 1 / 4 of caregivers presents signs of post-traumatic stress, a phenomenon that brings a loop to revive an occasion via uncontrollable flashbacks very troublesome. “If a quarter of the caregivers are bad, who may believe that the rest of the population is fine?” »»questions the president of the federation, Patrice Gauthier.

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