Hospital crisis: "We want something concrete"

2/14/2020, 6:20:53 PM

INTERVIEW - Professor Francis Berenbaum, rheumatologist at Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, says that the government's responses are not up to their claims.

Keywords: Francis Berenbaum, Agnès Buzyn, APHP, Public Hospital By: Marie-Cécile Renault

Francis Berenbaum, rheumatologist at the Saint-Antoine hospital, in Paris.

Rheumatologist at Saint-Antoine Hospital (AH-HP), Pr Francis Berenbaum is one of the heads of departments who have resigned from their administrative duties.

LE FIGARO.- Agnès Buzyn has put a lot of money on the table: recovery of a third of the hospital debt, bonuses for staff, credits for the purchase of equipment, etc. Why are you continuing the movement?

Francis BERENBAUM.- The account is not there. The answers are not up to our five demands, clear and precise. First, we demand the cancellation of the savings plan of 600 million euros planned at the public hospital this year. And for the following years, the national target for health expenditure (Ondam) must increase not 2.4% as planned, but 4% for the public hospital, which corresponds to the natural increase in expenditure. Second