While the Covid crisis revealed the lack of intensive care beds in French hospitals, Olivier Véran announced on Tuesday “an increase of around a thousand beds” in intensive care and critical care capacities in hospitals.
"We will send the decree to the Council of State by the end of February, which will see an increase of around a thousand resuscitation and critical care beds throughout the territory," he told AFP. National Assembly, without specifying when.
This will correspond to “a 20% increase in the resuscitation park”, he underlined, implicitly based on the approximately 5,100 beds available before Covid-19 – a floor since raised to 5,800 according to the ministry.
The Minister of Health is thus following the recommendations of an Igas report which "proposes that we extend the number of resuscitation and critical care beds in our country", he explained, recalling that he had -even "diligently the Igas" on this subject.
If the document has not been made public, Le Monde had reported in December on a “maximalist estimate” of “1000 additional intensive care beds by 2030”.
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Carrying out this increase, "the largest in our entire history", will require "recruiting, training, promoting, which we have been doing for two years", he insisted, after praising the salary increases. of the “Ségur de la santé”, supplemented since January by a bonus of 100 euros net for intensive care and critical care nurses – another recommendation from Igas.
At the end of October, a survey conducted by Jean-François Delfraissy, President of the Scientific Council and the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) and relayed by Liberation, revealed that one in five beds was closed in French hospitals for lack of caregivers. available.