In the midst of the fight against the coronavirus, his comments on savings in hospitals went very badly. The director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Grand Est, interviewed Friday at a press conference, said there was "no reason" to stop the cuts in posts and beds at Nancy CHRU.
According to Christophe Lannelongue, nothing justified calling into question the interministerial committee for the performance and modernization of the hospital care offer (Copermo), which provides for the abolition over five years of 174 beds (out of 1,577 in 2018) and 598 positions at Nancy CHRU (out of approximately 9,000).
"We will be a few weeks late but the trajectory will remain the same," he added. These words have aroused the ire of many elected representatives in Lorraine, many writing to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
The “suspended” reorganization plans
Faced with the controversy that has continued to swell this weekend, especially on social networks, the latter has split a development Sunday on Twitter, saying that, "in Nancy as everywhere, the it's time to mobilize everyone to face # COVID19 ”.
In Nancy, as everywhere, it is time for everyone to mobilize to face # COVID19. The time will come to learn from this unprecedented crisis & to rebuild our Hospital. All reorganization plans are obviously suspended from the major consulta ° that will follow
- Olivier Véran (@olivierveran) April 5, 2020“The time will come to learn from this unprecedented crisis & to rebuild our Hospital. All the reorganization plans are obviously suspended for the big consultation that will follow, ”he added.
Previously, many elected officials in Lorraine had denounced the words of Christian Lannelongue, while the caregivers, very much in demand since the beginning of the epidemic, keep asking for more beds and denounce the plans to restrict the budget.
As the CHRU teams go to the end of their personal investment, the position expressed by @ ars_grand_est is both disconcerting and indecent. With Christian Rabaud, we asked the government to recall the priorities facing the # COVID19 crisis https://t.co/s4ws6Em3ES
- Laurent Hénart (@LaurentHenart) April 4, 2020"While the CHRU teams go to the end of their personal investment, the position expressed by (the ARS) is both disconcerting and indecent," tweeted Laurent Hénart, centrist mayor of Nancy and chairman of the supervisory board. CHRU.
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"For me, Copermo is dead," he told the regional daily L'Est Républicain, saying that "the hospital tomorrow" will need "more beds", including that of Nancy.
Chairman of the departmental council of Meurthe-et-Moselle, the socialist Mathieu Klein indicated in a tweet that he wrote to Emmanuel Macron "to ask him to cancel the debt of the public hospital", in particular that of the CHRU of Nancy, and do not initiate the deletion of additional posts. Not sustainable before # Covid19, unsustainable after ». Asked, the ARS Grand Est did not react at the end of the afternoon.