For Jérôme Marty, the new Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau “managed the Covid-19 crisis rather well” when he was at the helm of the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency, and must now have “freedom to act” to “escape from Elysian supervision”.
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“It can be a good thing because Aurélien Rousseau knew how to show the capacity to act in unknown territory“, estimates Thursday, July 20 on franceinfo Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for free medicine, after the appointment of the former director of the ARS of Île-de-France to the Ministry of Health.
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“He managed the Covid-19 crisis rather well when he headed the Ile-de-France ARS and it was quite rare. He was able to show a certain courage, I am thinking of his pro-vaccination positions which earned him multiple attacks and threats. He faced it. He’s someone brave, someone imaginative“, adds Jérôme Marty. For him, “we have a health system that is on the ground, it is on the ground, we will have to rebuild it and to do this we will have to act together so we need someone who is able to weave a real partnership which recognizes the roles and responsibilities of each“, he argues.
However, Aurélien Rousseau has before him “two pitfalls, the heaviness of the administration which we know suffocates the Ministers of Health one after the other“, but also “a President of the Republic who has kept Health as his reserved domain and that is not possible, because we need a Minister of Health who has the freedom to act so he must free himself from Elysian supervision“, advises Jérôme Marty. As for François Braun, who succeeds Aurélien Rousseau, it is “a non-balance, he was suffocated by a president who ‘puppetized’ him and therefore he was the minister of small steps“.