Emmanuel Macron will discuss on Friday January 4 the vast project of overhauling the health system, "
out of breath
" by the government's own admission, during a visit to a hospital in Essonne, in the Paris region, to a long-awaited ceremony.
“
The President of the Republic will go to the South Francilien Hospital Center (CHSF)
”, in Essonne, “
to present his wishes to the actors of health, hospitals and liberals
”, announced Wednesday January 4 the Elysée.
This hospital was the victim in August of a vast computer attack.
The Head of State "
will return to the actions undertaken, the challenges to be met as well as the work to be carried out to rebuild our health system
", specified the presidency.
Accompanied by the Minister of Health François Braun, he will go in particular to meet the teams of the pediatric department, "
in a context of strong tensions on pediatric emergencies
", she added.
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Triple Winter Epidemic
According to an adviser to the executive, President Macron, who is organizing for the first time in six years at the Elysee Palace a greeting ceremony dedicated to health professionals, will make announcements on this occasion.
His decisions are eagerly awaited by a sector which is experiencing a period of extreme tension, with overwhelmed emergencies and a crying lack of caregivers in hospitals and in town, against the backdrop of the triple winter epidemic of Covid-19, flu and bronchiolitis.
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The government has promised a "
refoundation
" of the health system, after the billions of euros poured since 2020 within the framework of the Ségur de la santé to strengthen the attractiveness of the sector.
Sign of these tensions, the liberal doctors were called by a collective to continue this week a strike which began the day after Christmas, to obtain a revaluation of the consultation, with a national demonstration planned for Thursday in Paris.
FO-Santé, the second hospital public service union, in turn called for an indefinite strike from January 10 to protest against the government's "
inaction
".
The entourage of the Head of State believes that Emmanuel Macron had unveiled his "
philosophy
" in 2018, when he launched his reform to strengthen the supply of care in the long term, in particular by removing the numerus clausus in studies of Medicine.
"
Part of the way has been done
", but these measures take years to bear fruit, the time to train new generations of caregivers, argues the same source.
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During the campaign for his re-election, Emmanuel Macron had recognized in the spring that it would be necessary "
to go much further, faster and stronger
", in particular by strengthening "
the prevention policy
", "
the simplification of the hospital and its governance
" and improving "
access to emergency care
".
He made it one of the two “
major projects
” of his second five-year term, along with the school.
