Hospital: Emmanuel Macron launches a “flash mission” on difficulties of emergency services

According to the president, the health system must be the subject of a “real collective revolution”. Professor François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences de France, will have to hand over his conclusions “no later than July 1” to the Minister of Health.

Le Monde with AFP and Reuters

President Emmanuel Macron announced, on Tuesday, May 31, an “emergency mission” of a month to diagnose the emergency services crisis at the hospital and propose tracks to respond to them, first stage of A plan to be declined on the scale of the “1,200 French living areas”.

Professor François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences de France, will have to hand over his conclusions “at the latest on the 1 er ” to the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, said the chief of the state at the end of a visit to the Cherbourg hospital center. His report “will be intended to explain, territory by territory, where the gaps are, to be able to quantify them”, in particular, the questions of lack of personnel.

On this basis, explained the president, decisions will be made “to allow to mobilize more doctors, find attractiveness in certain sectors (…). This from the end of the summer will be declined in Each territory. “

” do everything to make [emergencies] “this summer

The president, recalling the changes made during his first mandate – end of the numerus clausus, segur de la santé, etc. – said it noted, in spite of everything, that hospitals are engorged, medical, growing deserts, that staff report “loss of meaning” and many to leave the health professions. According to him, the health system must be the subject of a “real collective revolution”. This is the subject of the vast project that the ministry and all the players in the health system must start in the summer.

Radioscopy of the difficulties “territory by territory”, “hospital by hospital”, this project must, according to Emmanuel Macron, allow to “build very concrete solutions” adapted to each of the 1,200 intermunicipalities “on the basis of the specifications national “, but also with the promise of additional means that the head of state envisages in” billions of euros “.

Night closings, “Délèstages” on other hospitals, access filtered by the SAMU: at least 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, and all the lights are red. In total, almost 20 % of approximately 620 public and private establishments, hosting one or more emergency services are affected. While professionals warn against an embolism of emergency services this summer, the Head of State said “guarantee that we will do everything to keep them”.

/Media reports.