More than 5,400 places to attend the Rugby World Cup will be offered to staff of health establishments to express to them the “gratitude” of the public authorities towards these “front line” professions, announced the Minister of Sports and Olympics on Friday.
During a trip to Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), she indicated that with Aurélien Rousseau (Health) and Agnès Firmin Le Bodo (Territorial Organization and Health Professions), the decision was taken to offer “5440 places” for “nursing staff and for the staff of public health establishments”.
“It’s a recognition of their work, they are – pardon the metaphor -” on the front line “to help us, we have seen it again in recent days of heat wave”, she explained during a press conference on the social and environmental responsibility of the Rugby World Cup, two weeks before the opening match. These 5440 places will concern the opening match, France / New Zealand, the matches of the France team, the “little final” or even posters like South Africa-Ireland, or Wales-Australia.
It is the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) of the seven cities concerned by the World Cup which will “select the health establishments”, and “within the establishments it is the head of the establishment with the consideration of social criteria which will offer these places,” Amélie Oudéa-Castéra told AFP. The Rugby World Cup will take place in Saint-Denis, Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Saint-Etienne, Lyon, Lille and Nice, from September 8 to October 28.