EDITORS NOTE: This photo is part of the AFP photo project named "Presidentielle: qu'attendent les electeurs? / Voters' voices in France's key election." / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - RESTRICTED TO FRENCH ELECTIONS ILLUSTRATION PURPOSE
Nathalie Niort, 39 and a mother of three, poses with her voting card on February 2, 2017 outside the Guy Thomas de Riom hospital in Puy-de-Dome where she is a nurse in a cardiology unit. What should be the priorities of the next French president? "That he stops the decline in the hospital. We're on the verge of a catastrophe, we can't keep selling off health like this. We have to stop staff cuts. We don't have enough staff. When things are going well, it's OK but when you're on your own and you have several patients that need to be resuscitated, which do you choose? We're on the verge of institutional mistreatment: we're doing back-to-back treatments, taking blood. We're shattered and we are trying not to make mistakes in our dosages. When we get home, we feel we haven't really looked after our patients properly. It's very hard to live through. We're putting the patient and the carer in danger." / AFP PHOTO / Thierry Zoccolan / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - RESTRICTED TO FRENCH ELECTIONS ILLUSTRATION PURPOSE