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"As a veteran doctor treating pregnant women in the suburbs of Paris, Ghada
Hatem-Gantzer realized that most of her patients needed more than she could
offer them.
Dr. Hatem-Gantzer, an obstetrician gynecologist, often oversaw care for women
who had suffered sexual abuse, self-harm or alcoholism. She would urge them to
see a psychologist, seek legal advice and file a police complaint. If the
patient seemed tense, she might also recommend a physiotherapist.
The challenge, Dr. Hatem-Gantzer found, was that all these services were
dispersed across an archipelago of state institutions, instead of being
centralized in one building. As a result, the women struggled to find the help
they needed, meaning that their complex traumas often went unaddressed.
“It was so complicated,” Dr. Hatem-Gantzer, 66, said in a recent interview.
“Whereas if I tell you, ‘Well, next door is the therapist, the cop is there,
then you can go to the support group, you can go to yoga on Mondays and do
theater on Tuesdays' — now that’s something else.”
Dr. Hatem-Gantzer built that “something else” almost 10 years ago in St.-Denis,
one of Paris’s poorest suburbs, on a patch of muddy ground next to a hospital
where she led the maternity ward. Here, she established a one-stop shop, known
as “House of Women,” where female victims of violence have access to a wide
range of social, legal and medical assistance, all in the same building."
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