Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, was the guest of 8:30 franceinfo. Wearing a mask indoors, using private consulting firms, a device for women with endometriosis: he answers questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
The question of the alleviation of the latest health measures may arise in mid-March
“If we follow this dynamic, 15 days after February 28, that brings us to mid-March, we could start to seriously ask ourselves the question of wearing a mask indoors, for adults and children”also indicated Olivier Véran.
End of restrictions ➡️ “I’m not saying that we will lighten everything, but probably that in mid-March, we will be able to lighten again” if “the hospital is in normal operating condition” according to Olivier Véran, citing the end indoor mask or vaccination pass. pic.twitter.com/0uMaiIHhoE
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“We could also start to lighten the vaccination pass” in mid-march “but keep it in places that are very at risk, such as discotheques and there it would be until the end of March, the beginning of April”, he explains.
Use of private firms: “25 million euros out of 30 billion in expenditure“
“We have placed a number of orders, for the Covid crisis it is 25 million euros out of 30 billion in expenditure which are devoted to the consulting firm. I recognize it and I claim it. every country in the world when you are going through a crisis”, he explains, while a survey book estimates that the government has spent between 1.5 billion and three billion euros a year in private consulting firms. 47 orders have been placed by the Ministry of Health.
Use of private practices ➡️ “Our country was at war. When you have to equip a TGV in 48 hours to transport intubated patients, you are happy to find people who have the skills to do so. They are in the sector, private” , for Olivier Véran. pic.twitter.com/Qs2SZemR52
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A new expanded device for patients with endometriosis
“We are going to broaden the criteria very significantly” access “to long-lasting affection device 31” for women with endometriosis, said the Minister of Health.
Endometriosis ➡️ “What we want is for a young girl to be diagnosed very early” says Olivier Véran. “We are going to expand the criteria so that no longer a single patient with active endometriosis will be deprived of a long-term condition.” pic.twitter.com/INFDqu7QZw
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For him, “no longer a single patient with active endometriosis, symptoms that require care and that generate costs” must not be “deprived of long-term affection” and therefore access to this device which concerns, to date, “several thousand women”.