The departure of the director of the AP-HP occurs in a context of unprecedented crisis in hospital services. Among the potential successors is Nicolas Revel, a relative of Emmanuel Macron.
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He decided to hang up the gloves. And the announcement has caused a stir in the medical world, but also political. After nine years at the head of the public assistance-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Martin Hirsch made public, Friday, June 17, his departure from the management of the Ile-de-France hospital mastodon, at the end of the month. Arrived in 2013, the 58 -year -old state councilor abandoned his functions in an unprecedented context at the hospital, the shortage of caregivers leading many establishments to close beds for months.
In March 2020, at the heart of the crisis due to the COVVI-19, he had notably promised to “make sure that the hospital” according to “was not the one” “. It is officially because he considers himself incapable of keeping this commitment today, the conditions not being met on the government side as of the hospital community, that the senior official decided to “put his post as director General of the AP-HP available to the government, “he explained to the world.
Refusing to believe in a voluntary departure from Mr. Hirsch, some in the medical world see it above all the hand of the executive. The appointment of Aurélien Rousseau, ex-director of the Ile-de-France regional health agency as director of the Elisabeth Borne cabinet in Matignon, would not be completely foreign. A version totally denied by Mr. Rousseau, who assures that he “absolutely not” played a role in the departure of Martin Hirsch. “We have always worked together with confidence and I can say it in friendship,” he explains. Other sources, in the corridors of the AP-HP, claim that the decision, made for a month, would come from the Elysée.
“my decision”
A version that the executive does not confirm, without being surprised by the announcement of the departure of Mr. Hirsch, also considered as “information already known” in the medical world, where rumor was circulating. At the top of the state, we also work to minimize the scope of this announcement, by presenting it as a non-event. “Martin Hirsch has been in his post for nine years. There can be a wear phenomenon at home. That administrations change governance, this happens,” sweeps an advisor to the executive, while the name of the ex -Director of Jean Castex’s cabinet in Matignon, Nicolas Revel, circulates to replace him at the head of the AP-HP. The latter is already very well known in the world of health, in particular in the ranks of liberal doctors: he directed the national insurance fund from 2014 to 2020 before being appointed director of Mr. Castex’s office, As Emmanuel Macron wished.
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