Rémi Salomon calls on the future government not to “tighten the budget”

The deficit will approach “two billion euros” this year, warns the president of the Conference of Hospital Medical Commissions. “We have never reached this level.”

“The public hospital is in great difficulty, we have a deficit which is estimated at around two billion at the end of the year, which is considerable, we have never reached this level”warned Rémi Salomon, president of the Conference of Hospital Medical Commissions, on Wednesday September 18 on franceinfo.

“My fear is that if we tighten the budget, as we did in the years 2010-2020, we will once again have staff numbers that risk being insufficient, working conditions that deteriorate, and the momentum that we are currently seeing, with a resumption of activity, better recruitment, particularly of nurses, this momentum risks being cut off, and that worries us.”he stressed.

“We need a budget that is up to par”insisted Rémi Salomon, because “Healthcare has a cost, and this cost increases every year”particularly because of “the aging population” And “technical treatments that are expensive”. “That’s the problem we have with Ondam [Objectif national de dépenses d’assurance maladie]the budget voted by Parliament for health, it must increase a little each year”, he explained.

According to him, this budget is increasing but “not enough” For “provide good care, so that healthcare professions remain attractive”. He absolutely wants to avoid “tighten the rope and end up with insufficient staff and a workload” too important, with, for example, “one nurse for fifteen patients, that’s not enough”. It is therefore necessary “that we calculate the budget according to needs” from the health sector.