Stuck between a slowing post-Covid activity and inflation that is causing their bills, especially energy, public hospitals need "1.5 billion additional euros" to complete their 2023 budget, said Monday the Hospital Federation of France (FHF).
The account is still not there for the public hospital. After a 2022 financial year that should end with a deficit exceeding one billion euros, the FHF considers "necessary the increase (of the budget) 2023 of 1.5 billion additional to cope with the evolution of costs and prices, especially energy". A demand shared in a statement signed with representatives of hospital doctors, directors of CHU and deans of medical faculties, in order to "alert the public authorities" on the risk of a "new destabilization of the health system".
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Alarm call launched opportunely the day before the opening of the annual exhibition of the FHF, Santexpo, which will be held at the Parc des expositions in Paris until Thursday and will be inaugurated as every year by the Minister of Health. François Braun will thus have the opportunity to respond to the concerns of the sector, which is also demanding guarantees for the 2024 budget, and perhaps to outline a financial gesture, beyond the sharp price increases - more than 7% - already announced at the end of March.