“It’s not new unfortunately, from for decades, the hospital has been mistreated,” said François Braun on Sunday on BFMTV.
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Additional funds for a hospital “breathless”. The Minister of Health, François Braun, announced on Sunday October 23 the release of 150 million euros for “hospital services under tension”including pediatric emergency services.
“I worked yesterday with the President of the Republic, with the Prime Minister. We decided on an action plan of 150 million euros to respond immediately to specific problems in certain sectors”, said François Braun on BFMTV.
“It is not new unfortunately, for decades, the hospital has been mistreated”, agrees the Minister of Health. For the latter, this action plan must allow “increase in staff is essentially that, provided that staff are found”. “We have to bring people back to the hospital”, he pleads, also calling for a “solidarity at the level of the territories, that is to say also the liberals, to come and help at the hospital”.
A little earlier on Sunday, government spokesman Olivier Véran announced that the executive would launch a “immediate action plan”, with in particular the local activation of “white planes”, in response to the saturation of pediatric emergency services.
Friday, more than 4,000 caregivers signed an open letter to the President of the Republic, in order to denounce the saturation of pediatric hospital services in the context of an epidemic of bronchiolitis. Caregivers point above all to structural difficulties, the result of a “irresponsible political inaction”. “Hospitalization services are overflowing (…) It is urgent to be able to reopen beds in pediatric wards by stopping the flight of caregivers and by recruiting passionate young people.”