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The Marseille IHU, created by Professor Didier Raoult, launches the recruitment of his successor

2021-11-24T08:40:54.280Z


The institute, created by Didier Raoult, wants its new director to take office at the end of September 2022 at the latest. A call for candida


The days of Professor Raoult at the head of the IHU Méditerranée Infection in Marseille are officially numbered.

This Tuesday, the institute initiated the process of selecting a new director by appointing Louis Schweitzer, the former boss of Renault, at the head of a “selection commission”.

The board of directors of the university hospital institute "unanimously proposed the appointment of Mr. Louis Schweitzer," said the institute in a press release, adding that a "call for candidates will soon be distributed in international journals ”.

Accused of "charlatanism" by some of his peers

But no date has been given for the entry into office of the successor of the controversial Didier Raoult, accused of "charlatanism" by some of his peers for promoting a treatment of Covid with hydroxychloroquine without scientific validation.

Following today's board of directors, Tuesday 23 November 2021, here is the press release from the President of the Mediterranean Infection Foundation: https: //t.co/ACAN3AMV1m

- IHU Méditerranée Infection (@IHU_Marseille) November 23, 2021

On September 17, in a press release already announcing "a recruitment commission and an international call for tenders", the six founding members of the institute, including the AP-HM (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille), had stated the objective of finding a replacement for Didier Raoult by "June 30 (

2022

) at the latest, for taking up his post no later than September 30". Didier Raoult, retired since August 31 as a university professor and hospital practitioner, should therefore remain at the head of this institute which he had created in 2011 for a few more months.

In August, in the daily Le Monde, the new director general of the AP-HM, François Crémieux, had expressed the "need to turn a page".

"He arrives to clean and I am one of the objects he would like to clean", reacted Professor Raoult, in an interview with Cnews, claiming to pay his criticisms of the management of the Covid-19 epidemic by the Parisian public hospital (AP-HP), and its president, Martin Hirsch, of which François Crémieux had been the deputy.

Numerous surveys on the IHU

One thing is certain, the teams currently in place at the Institute will be involved in the selection of their future boss. "The profile of the candidacy drafted by the scientific and strategic council of the IHU" was "unanimously approved", the press release said, stressing that this council "will be an integral part of the selection commission".

This recruitment process comes at a time when the IHU is the subject of numerous investigations and its director has been the target of several complaints.

"We are suing success," Didier Raoult retorted on November 5, in Bordeaux, after his appearance before the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine.

He was accused of having promoted a dual therapy combining hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat Covid patients, "without established scientific data", but also of having failed "in his duty of brotherhood" towards other doctors .

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Several investigations have been opened on the conditions under which the IHU conducted its studies around the Covid: first by the University of Aix-Marseille, another founding member of the Institute, in June 2021, then by the AP- HM, in November.

A savage experiment against tuberculosis?

The ANSM (the drug agency) had also announced to conduct “investigations” in July, after an article in L'Express on “possible breaches of the regulation of clinical trials”.

The same drug agency announced at the end of October that it was going to "carry out an inspection" within the IHU, following the affirmations of Mediapart according to which the institute would have carried out "a savage experiment against tuberculosis".

Faced with "the seriousness and the potential extent" of these facts, the AP-HM had also launched an investigation, while for its part the Marseille prosecutor's office asked for an "evaluation" of the judicial follow-up to be given to this case.

Finally, on November 4, it was the Minister of Health Olivier Véran and his colleague from Higher Education and Research, Frédérique Vidal, who asked the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) and the inspection General of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) to carry out "a control mission" at the IHU.

Source: leparis

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