The collective of civil servants “Our public services” was alarmed, in a report published Thursday, that the public service was becoming “a minimum and degraded service” for the benefit of the public sector.
The report, published Thursday September 14 by the collective of civil servants “Our public services”, points in particular to health, which is “a very good example, like the school, of circumvention by the private sector”. On franceinfo, Arnaud Bontemps, magistrate at the Court of Auditors and spokesperson for the collective, denounced the for-profit clinics which “focus on surgery, procedures that are very programmable and very cost-effective.”
But according to Lamine Gharbi, president of the Federation of Private Hospitalization, his nursing colleagues from “do not recognize themselves in this report”. The boss of the FHP “regrets not having been asked” by the authors of the report for “correct these untruths”.
“There is no selection of patients within private clinics. It’s a fantasy that doesn’t exist”
Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHPat franceinfo
20% of private patients benefiting from state medical aid
Lamine Gharbi ensures that the private sector takes care of “nine million patients every year”, of which “20% are beneficiaries of state medical aid.” “They explain to us that the emergency room is the public hospital. No, that’s not true,” insists the president of the Federation of Private Hospitalization. He recalls that “three million of our fellow citizens use private services”. “If we are not together on the same team to care for patients, it will not work”, he concludes.
The boss of the FHP also relies on the words of Arnaud Robinet, the president of the Public Hospital Federation, who said “that he could not regain the activity of 2019, before the crisis. This activity involves patients who are not taken care of.”
“Fortunately, private clinics can take these patients for surgery, but also for rehabilitation, psychiatry, obstetrics and emergency. So we are complementary. During the Covid crisis, 25% of patients in intensive care were in our clinics”
Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHPat franceinfo
The private sector also has its “difficulties”
“We claim these public service missions because we serve the public and we are a public service,” adds the president of the FHP in reaction to the report. “We can help in emergencies. We can help with ongoing care.” But Lamine Gharbi wants to emphasize that the private sector also has its “difficulties”.
“We too, our caregivers, our doctors, are worn out by this lack of recognition”
Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHPat franceinfo
The boss of the FHP cites the revaluation announced by the Prime Minister of “night suggestions, that is to say night bonuses. She increased them for nights and weekends. It’s called hardship”. But he regrets that this only concerned “the public. The private sector has been excluded. Do you find it normal that we are excluded from these increases for our caregivers?”
“A third of clinics are in deficit”
Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHPat franceinfo
Lamine Gharbit launches an appeal to the Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau in order to “restore fairness and equality between sectors. We must stop pitting public and private against each other.” “We must all be together”, adds the boss of the FHP.