Last December, there were 21,000 health professionals volunteering to be mobilized quickly in the event of a crisis within the health reserve, a body created in 2007 by Xavier Bertrand after the H5N1 flu crisis. As of March 23, there are now nearly 40,000, since 19,000 more have volunteered since January 26 to strengthen a health system already notoriously out of breath.
Sign of a great surge of solidarity, even if, explains Public Health France (SP France), officially “only 3,800 of them are health reservists, that is to say that they have completed their administrative and signed a three-year employment contract with the health reserve ” .
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Currently, the reserve displays its priorities: “The Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Île-de-France regions are mainly concerned, at this stage. In addition, it is already necessary to anticipate support for the overseas regions ” . In practice,
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