Emergency physician Mathias Wargon is “waiting to see” what Michel Barnier “will actually do” for the hospital

The day after the new Prime Minister’s visit to the Necker hospital in Paris, Matthias Wargon, head of the emergency department and the Smur in Seine-Saint-Denis, recalled that the priority is to finance the public hospital to enable it to carry out its missions.

For his first official trip as Prime Minister, Michel Barnier went to Necker Hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris on Saturday, September 7. “Listening to caregivers”the new Prime Minister assured that even “without working a miracle for the hospital, we can make progress”, and made health one of his government’s priorities. “Every time, it’s a bit the same thing so we’ll wait and see what he’s really going to do”reacted Sunday on franceinfo Matthias Wargon, head of the emergency and Smur service in Seine-Saint-Denis.

For Mathias Wargon, the priority is to “give the budget to the hospital”. “The urgent thing is to make sure that we don’t have a deficit so that we can continue to hire staff, have projects, become more modern, have therapeutic projects, that’s it, that’s the emergency of the hospital”explained the head of department.

“We can make progress in the efficiency of public spending,” Michel Barnier stressed in particular during his visit to the headquarters of the Paris Emergency Medical Aid Service, located at the Necker Hospital. The former minister of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy considered that“There is progress to be made in the organization, there are savings to be made if we listen to people.”

“When we organize ourselves better, we don’t save money”replied Mathias Wargon. “We have to stop with this thing that dates back 30 years.” “However, yes, we have to organize ourselves better to work better and also to have more patients, more patients and more staff.”supported the emergency doctor while insisting on a managerial reinforcement of the services. “Better organization in the hospital so that additional examinations go faster, allowing hospitalized people to be able to leave for a structure after the hospital”he also detailed.

For Mathias Wargon, “If we can empty the beds after hospitalization, we will probably find it easier to find beds inside the hospital.” Another priority in the eyes of the head of the emergency department and the Smur in Seine-Saint-Denis, “rebuilding the medical fabric in our provincial towns”.