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In January 2022, at the hospital of the Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris, the intensive care unit was in the midst of a fight against the Covid-19. As the wave subsides, Wednesday April 13, a doctor believes that the emergency is elsewhere. “We are completely exhausted by the crisis, and I think we are a little beyond everything, in an emergency exit. We must reinvent the hospital system, otherwise our health system, to which we are all very attached, will disappear.”comments Jean-Michel Constantin, professor of anesthesia-resuscitation at the hospital of the Pitie-Salpetriere (AP-HP)

At the University Hospital of Bordeaux (Gironde)where more than 45,000 operations are carried out each year, blocks are regularly closed for lack of personnel. Romain Capdeville, a nurse for a dozen years, sees his colleagues leave the public hospital. “The idea is to keep people motivated to work. (…) The average lifespan of a nurse in a service is very few years“, he informs. Medical deserts are also a sensitive issue. The France collective Assos Health, which wants to guarantee everyone access to advanced care “a total disorganization of the supply of care”.