The public hospital is bloodless.
Already weakened for a long time by a lack of human and financial resources, nursing staff and health professionals have been put to the test by two years of an unprecedented epidemic crisis.
Compensated in recent months by the efforts made by white coats to deal with the successive waves of Covid-19, the precariousness of this key sector is now cruelly brought to light.
With the approach of the summer holidays, some 120 emergency services would be closed or threatened to be closed in the country, according to a list drawn up by the association Samu-Urgences de France (SUdF).
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Hence Emmanuel Macron's trip to the Cotentin public hospital center, in Cherbourg (Manche), this Tuesday afternoon.
The opportunity for the President of the Republic to promote the local operating model, where access to care - both in hospital emergencies and in city medicine - is collectively organized around different actors, thus allowing avoid saturations.
The opportunity also for the Head of State, according to information from
Figaro
, to announce the creation of a “flash mission” on emergencies.
This working group should be entrusted to the head of emergencies of the CHR Metz-Thionville and president of Samu-Urgences de France, François Braun, we learned from concordant sources.
The man, who became known to the general public during the pandemic, played the roles of “Mr.
Health” with the president-candidate during the campaign, alongside two colleagues.
