In the Drôme, Anne Hidalgo launched her campaign on the theme of medical deserts and the public hospital, promising in particular to abolish the ARS and to do everything to save the Saint-Vallier hospital, threatened by a lack of doctors.
Four days after her big inaugural speech, in Lille (North) which marked the real launch of her campaign, the candidate pledged to call on Prime Minister Jean Castex to try to save the hospital's rehabilitation service .
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"Tomorrow I call on the Prime Minister, I will fight on your side,"
she told worried staff, some of whom are due to receive new assignments in mid-November, promising to
"stir heaven and earth"
.
While a survey published Wednesday in
Liberation
shows that 20% of beds in CHUs and CHRs are closed for lack of staff, the mayor of Paris visited this small working-class and popular commune of 4,000 inhabitants, 45 minutes from TER of Lyon, which experienced a strong mobilization from the first demonstration of "yellow vests", as explained by its mayor, the spokesperson for the Socialist Party Pierre Jouvet.
"Accounting agencies", launches Hidalgo
"I come to say that health issues are a priority,"
she explained.
"The lack of doctors is not new,"
she said, deploring a
"lack of anticipation"
from the authorities on the subject.
Defending
"the public hospital"
as
"the flagship"
of health, the candidate, credited with 4 to 7% of the vote currently, has promised
"a massive recruitment plan"
of staff, and wants
"to remove the regional agencies of health ”
, which have become
“ accounting agencies ”
.
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"They should have started from the needs of the population, from the real life of the people,"
insisted Anne Hidalgo, who also wants "to go back to fee-for-service".
"I agree that every public euro must be well used"
, but
"medical acts cannot meet the constraints of what is profitable and not profitable,"
she said.
The mayor of Paris also wants
"care for others to be upgraded"
to be more attractive.
"These are not just words"
, assured the one which provides for
"a major salary negotiation on salary issues, career and training"
, in the private sector as in the public.
"Yes it costs money, but I prefer that rather than spinning aid to companies without conditions, I prefer that rather than removing the wealth tax
," she continued.