Public hospital unions accuse the Minister of Health of “bad faith” after his comments on the emergency situation

“Perhaps the Minister is still under the euphoric effect of the Olympic Games atmosphere.”ironizes, Thursday August 22, in a press release, the Action practitioners hospital coalition (APH, 14 practitioners’ unions), awarding him the “gold medal of bad faith”On Tuesday, the resigning Minister Delegate for Health, Frédéric Valletoux, estimated that a “fifty hospitals” French “are currently under tension”. “It’s a little better than last summer” and better than in 2022, he estimated.

“The health situation in our country continues its programmed deterioration” and this does not concern “not just emergencies”continues APH, referring to “Smur (mobile emergency and resuscitation service) lines closed, with delays in treatment for vital emergencies” or even numerous bed closures in the services. The situation has become “endemic, except at one site: the Olympic Games clinic”, castigates the APH.

“While some politicians display blissful satisfaction, professionals (…) no longer observe a deterioration, but a collapse of our health system”concludes APH. In an interview with Releasethe president of the Samu Urgences de France (SUDF) union, Marc Noizet, also disputes the figure given by the minister, according to him “vastly underestimated”and denounces “the usual ministerial communication intended to reassure public opinion”. According to a union survey, “During the summer of 2023, one in two services had to close at least one emergency line” And “70% of Smur” had run in degraded mode.