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Lamine Gharbi: "Without private clinics, we don't know how"

2020-10-23T17:10:09.855Z


BIG BANG SANTÉ - For the president of the Federation of Private Hospitalization, the hiccups between public hospitals and clinics in the face of Covid-19 are a thing of the past.


By introducing the “Big Bang Health” of

Figaro on

Friday morning, Lamine Gharbi, president of the Federation of private hospitalization, wanted to be more reassuring for the second wave than for the first.

According to him,

“the government did the job

” and today, the hiccups between public hospitals and clinics belong to the past:

“we are together, we have the same doctors and the care is the same”

.

“During the first wave, in Île-de-France 24% of intensive care patients were taken care of by the private sector.

This showed that without the private sector we did not know how to do it ”.

Thanks to the confinement

,

"a

Today, with 30% of Covid patients, the system is holding up.

But if we go up to 60% of non-Covid patients, it will become fair to take care of them

”, even if

“ there is 25 to 30% of deprogramming requested by the regional health agencies

”, the latter preferring to talk about “

Modulation of activity

(in other cities that are not in the red)

.

But all the lessons of the first wave have not yet been learned, believe the three speakers in the debate on the topic:

"France and Europe are they ready to face the second wave?

», Moderated by Jacques-Olivier Martin, editorial director of Big Bang Santé.

Europe "not up to the task"

Valérie Pécresse Le Figaro

Valérie Pécresse pleaded for greater decentralization.

"The state has trouble delegating: if it let us do it, we could do better

.

"

For example, the president of the Ile-de-France regional council calls for "

more agility on a large scale"

to chair the regional health agencies, which should be "

the place where the public hospital, the private clinics and liberal medicine ”.

"In Germany or Switzerland, decentralization has certainly helped, compared to countries like France,

" confirms Didier Pittet, chairman of the coronavirus crisis assessment commission, who has just submitted his mid-term report.

"

Europe of health has not been up to it"

, also pointed out the Swiss infectious disease specialist.

And Philippe Juvin, head of the emergency department at the Georges Pompidou hospital and former MEP, adds:

“When did she bring us together to list the resuscitation capacities?

She was absent ”, in

particular because of certain countries which play their personal card.

Shortage of flu shots

At the national level, while the flu vaccination campaign is already the subject of vaccine shortage problems, criticism has not failed either.

Regarding these stockouts, Philippe Juvin recalled that

“only 23% of nursing assistants in nursing homes were vaccinated.

The coronavirus was the opportunity to change that.

It hasn't been done.

"And, according to him,"

once we have a vaccine against Covid-19, we will be in the same situation as for the flu

".

Source: lefigaro

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