While the government has continued to pilot the health crisis according to the risk of hospital saturation and at the dawn of a potential fifth wave, it may seem surprising that beds are massively closed at the public hospital.
Yet this is the reality.
For lack of paramedical personnel, one in five beds would be closed, assured the president of the Scientific Council Jean-François Delfraissy last week.
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"There is an increase of nearly a third of vacant positions among paramedics compared to the fall of 2019,"
agreed the Minister of Health on Wednesday in
Liberation
.
"
The fall and the post-crisis period are complicated in terms of HR"
, already noted in mid-October the president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), Frédéric Valletoux.
"We have the feeling that tomorrow will be even worse"
, adds Thierry Amouroux, spokesperson for the National Union of Nursing Professionals (SNPI) which reports
"10 to 15% of nursing stations
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