One health minister is chasing another… The sector’s stakeholders are still waiting to find out the name of the future tenant of Avenue de Ségur – the sixth in two years – after two months of doubts within the executive, but they have no doubts about the first case they will have to deal with: the hospital in crisis.
“Public health will be a priority”“This is what the new head of government, Michel Barnier, said on 7 September during his first visit to the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital in Paris. This is a commitment in line with that made by the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, but which many caregivers find hard to believe, tired of communication with little impact on the ground.
Beyond the crucial issue of budget and resources, the hospital is “moment of choice”They say, listing all these issues that, two and a half years before the end of Macron’s second five-year term, have not been resolved. Because they are divisive or because they require structural reforms. Overview.
How to “decongest” emergencies?
Emmanuel Macron had promised to take up this challenge by the end of 2024. Three months before the deadline, the problem remains unresolved. The publication on Tuesday 17 September of the summer survey conducted by the SAMU-Ergences de France (SUdF) union bears this out. More than half of the emergency doctors contacted reported poor functioning between July and August (61%), and 202 emergency services – out of the 331 that participated in the survey and out of the 650 that cover the territory – were forced to close (for a night, a weekend or even more), or at least to do without a doctor.
They are also more than half of the SMUR, these teams called to intervene in vital emergencies, who attest to having closed at least one ” line “ (a team). This umpteenth photograph of a summer under tension confirms, for the first responders, that the “Braun package” (named after the former minister and emergency doctor François Braun) of measures decided urgently, in July 2022, and sustained since then, is not enough. Even so, for the resigned Minister of Health, Frédéric Valletoux, the situation in the emergency services during the summer of 2024 was better than in 2023 and 2022, something that those concerned question.
The levers of the “braun pack”, the most visible of which is the “regulation” On the 15th, at the entrance to the services, they were deployed somewhat a la carte in hospitals. But the emergency rooms remain the receptacle of the problems of an entire health system, constantly hitting emergency doctors, hard hit by the shortage of doctors: they see more and more patients arrive, at a time when medical conditions in the desert are worsening, and at the same time they are faced with a lack of hospital beds.
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