Sometimes, on discreet albums of French song, we grasp a little of the historical reality of our country. Here, a song by Benoît Tranchand, in 2019, navigates an ordinary hospital. And we better understand the statistics revealed by the Ministry of Health itself last Tuesday: 4316 hospital beds were still cut in France in 2021. Which brings to more than 21,000 beds cut between the end of 2016 and the end of 2021 .
The trend is old: there were 10,000 hospital beds cut during François Hollande’s five-year term, and 37,000 beds cut during Nicolas Sarkozy’s mandate. And even earlier…
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Benoit Tranchand, Hospital2019
The Muppet Show, Veterinarians in the hospital1978
Guy Beart, Hospital1968
Pierre Perret, The Hospital1979
Clear, quiet hospital1976
Kamini, Marly Gomont2007
Serge Reggiani, Villejuif1968
Berurier Black, Lobotomy Hospital1983
Stupeflip, Woodwork2011
Benoit Tranchand, Hospital2019
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