UNo one heals themselves not only with treatments. It is also rebuilt thanks to links, emotion, life and creation. Where health protects, culture unites.» Under the trees of the Salvator hospital, in the 9eIn the Marseille district, Auréa Cophignon, member of the health commission of the Southern Region, recalls that equal access to health goes with equal access to culture. This Wednesday, Auréa Cophignon, Yann Bubien, director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and Claire Rannou, director of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Drac), reaffirmed their commitment to the Health and culture policy.
Created in 1999 by the ministries responsible for Health and Culture, this policy was relaunched and strengthened in the Paca region with a new agreement for 2025-2028. Supported by the ARS, the Drac and the South Region, the objective is to bring culture to patients, relatives and caregivers within hospitals, health or medico-social structures.
The program is carried out in coordination between health and cultural structures. For the 2025 call for projects, 43 initiatives were selected and 39 in 2026. “These projects allow both our caregivers and our patients to have access to culture“, welcomes Yann Bubien, director of the ARS.
« If art and culture bring something essential, it is an escape, a vibration that escapes protocol [médical] sometimes heavy [de certains patients]”, says Claire Rannou, director of Drac.
These initiatives therefore allow some people to escape from their daily lives punctuated by care and are also a form of healing.
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