Rémi Salomon, president of the medical commission for the establishment of Public Assistance – Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP), was the guest of “8:30 am franceinfo” on Thursday June 9. He answered questions from Sahlia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
Hospital: Rémi Salomon welcomes the “first measures” but “we should go faster”
Overtime paid double for doctors and caregivers (nurses, nursing assistants, etc.) “a good measure”, estimated Rémi Salomon, president of the medical commission of establishment of the Public Assistance – Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP). This is one of “first steps” for the hospital unveiled by the government on Wednesday, without waiting for the result of the “flash mission” commissioned by Emmanuel Macron. However, the professor believes that this is not enough: “You have to pay more for all additional time, not just overtime”. “The guards” and “the on-call duty”, he cites as an example.
Rémi Salomon also salutes the “exceptional device” announced by the government which should allow student nurses and nursing assistants who completed their initial training in June and July to start practicing immediately, without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma. According to him, “we should go faster” in the response to the crisis facing the hospital. It is not “not sure that we still need to wait for a report or the conclusion of the so-called ‘flash’ mission for June 28”.
Legislative 2022: Rémi Salomon alerts “future elected officials” to the “needs” of hospitals
Three days before the first round of the legislative elections, the president of the medical committee for the establishment of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), has, moreover, launched on franceinfo an appeal to “future elected officials”: “In a few months, the National Assembly will vote on the hospital budget. Like other years, are you going to vote on a budget based solely on financial criteria or are you going to take the needs into consideration?”, launched the one who is also at the head of the Conference of the presidents of medical commission of establishment of the university hospital centers (CHU) of France.
For Rémi Salomon, “we are now reaching a point where we probably have to put in a lot of resources and we know that given the economic context, it’s not that simple, but you have to know what people want”. If they “want to be well cared for, to have a solid hospital, you have to put in a lot of resources”.
Another subject of concern for the president of the medical commission for the establishment of Public Assistance – Hôpitaux de Paris: the Covid-19 epidemic, which still threatens the proper functioning of hospitals. “If it goes up, if people and caregivers are sick, it will be complicated”, he judged. Also, you have to be “very careful not to let the Covid rise too high” and this winter, “we may have to put the masks back on” and get vaccinated again.