"
The private sector is there and the private sector can help,
" said the Federation of Private Hospitalization (FHP) at the end of last week.
Since the start of the health crisis, private hospitals have regularly reminded them that they are indeed on the bridge, and available to participate in the fight against the coronavirus.
Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHP, even indicates that private hospitals currently have between 1,500 and 2,000 intensive care beds dedicated to “
covid patients
”.
But that they could unlock nearly 4,000. While many hospitals are once again reaching critical occupancy thresholds, is France really depriving itself of so many private sector beds?
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All these calls to be mobilized, it is especially communication
", blows a manager in the public sector, testifying to the competition, even the mistrust, which can exist between public hospitals and clinics.
At the start of the health crisis, last March, the collaboration of these two types of establishments
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