This nurse from Seine-et-Marne founded the Banlieues Santé association two years ago. Long committed to access to care and health, it is increasing the number of initiatives to bridge the gap that keeps the inhabitants of the suburbs away from the health system.
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Abdelaali El Badaoui, president and founder of Banlieues Santé © Sandra Mignot
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Difficult to fix an appointment with Abdelaali El Badaoui. A man of networks, contacts, chatting too, he juggles his life as a father and the development of the association he created two years ago, Banlieues Santé.
In appointments, the screen of his cell phone keeps lighting up under the effect of incoming messages. He welcomes us in a gymnasium currently occupied by his association, where volunteers assemble hygiene kits (soap, shampoo, hydro-alcoholic gel, mask) then distributed through an entire network of associations in Ile-de-France. ” Because my conception of health is really global, summarizes Abdelaali. It is about complete physical, mental and social well-being as defined by the WHO. And we cannot treat someone who does not eat, who feels excluded, stigmatized, isolated. »
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This nurse has an original background. He took his first steps in the world of healthcare professionals with a broom in his hand, at the age of 16. ” I did all the odd jobs in the hospital. »ASH, stretcher bearer, handler, children’s animator, ambulance driver…« I spoke with the patients, I realized the social inequalities. Sometimes I had to translate, with the caregivers, for patients who did not understand and very quickly I mobilized my health professional colleagues to come and do prevention in the field. »
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It must be said that the man knows the relation to the health of the inhabitants of the political districts of the city. He himself is from Surville, a district of Montereau Fault Yonne, in Seine-et-Marne. As a child he was hospitalized, 70% of his body surface burned. ” I saw the distress of my parents, illiterate, who did not master the codes and did not clearly understand what was going to happen to me and how I was going to be treated. »
Atypical course
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In addition to his first job, Abdelaali el Badaoui is also a high level athlete. He runs in long distance and middle distance.
In 2002 he was crowned European team cross-champion and aims for the 2004 Olympics. But the following year, Patatras, a malleolus injury interrupted his sports career at 23 years old. He then changes his mind. Without the bac, he manages to integrate an IFSI, via the validation of prior learning. There followed a year of trying his hand at hospital practice, then another as a nursing coordinator in an Ehpad. The desire for autonomy and the entrepreneurial spirit of which he claims to lead him to create his liberal cabinet in 2012.
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« But I had, say, the gluttony to help a lot more people », He explains. With health professionals, social workers, elected officials, administrative staff whom he had met during the first part of his career, the man with the broad smile continues to mobilize and regularly organize actions in the field: support at home with other health professionals, prevention and public health sessions, etc.
His athletic past gives him a small aura but above all his local roots and his commitment allow him to build a more official initiative. In 2018, he officially founded Banlieues Santé, with the aim of connecting the most distant people (sometimes geographically but above all culturally) to the health system.
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Very quickly, ideas burst forth and the association fired from all wood, launching multiple projects and partnerships: health talks in the homes of immigrant workers, collective ophthalmological consultation sessions at the Rotschild Foundation, prevention meetings … formulas and pretty quotes, including that of his father, “ you have two ears to listen and one mouth to speak, so listen more than you speak », The nurse and his team are working to bring up the needs of the field.
Current projects
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New technologies are eyeing him and several projects have been initiated, via partnerships: a mobile truck for dentists, teleconsultation booths, the creation of a digital fund to allow everyone access to the care and interventions necessary for the time of reimbursements and excess fees. Then comes the covid and its confinements.
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« We immediately realized the tragedy that could be in our neighborhoods. Between the lack of appropriate information, job losses or the inability to go to work for some, the time has passed for individual support or collective prevention sessions. The association sets up food and hygiene packages, managing to mobilize new volunteers. At the same time, advice is obviously given and adapted to encourage prevention of transmission. An app translating them into 50 languages was quickly developed. During the summer, a mobile operation is set up in the greater Parisian suburbs to talk about health and covid of course.
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And Abdelaali does not intend to stop there. Contacted by institutions in several territories, the action extends to Marseille, Roubaix, Alès… ” And the rural area is also concerned, because they are the same issues: precariousness, geographic distance, sometimes lack of understanding of the system. »
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Today, the one who qualifies “ general interest entrepreneur And meets with ministers, no longer provides nursing care. It is fully invested in Banlieues Santé and its development. He wants to make his association a ” hub for medical and social inclusion »And an exportable model.
The association already has an office in Casablanca. Next project for Ile-de-France: the opening of a women’s café in Clichy, scheduled for January 2021. A third place that will allow women from the neighborhoods to train and to resolve self-esteem problems , reinstate their rights, facilitate access to health, etc.
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Sandra Mignot
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This portrait is a complementary article to the article “Banlieues Santé, the missing link”, published in n ° 39 of ActuSoins Magazine (December, January, February 2021).
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