Nicolas Revel succeeds Martin Hirsch at head of Paris hospitals

The appointment of this relative of Emmanuel Macron intervenes while the wounds of the care system are raw, after more than two years of pandemic, who wrung the caregivers.

Le Monde with AFP

Nicolas Revel, ex-director of Jean Castex’s cabinet in Matignon and close to Emmanuel Macron, was appointed head of the Public Assistance-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), according to the report of the Council ministers, Monday July 4.

Before his visit to Matignon, he had led the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) from 2014 to 2020. A position awarded by François Hollande, who had previously recruited it in 2012 as deputy secretary general of the Elysée, in tandem with Emmanuel Macron.

This Énarque (Promotion Léon Gambetta) 56 years old, son of the writer Jean-François Revel and journalist Claude Sarraute, first made his arms at the Court of Auditors, before entering politics by politics by politics by politics by politics by politics by the left.

Technical advisor to Jean Glavany at the Ministry of Agriculture, he joined and then directed, then, the firm of Bertrand Delanoë at the Paris City Hall. >

m. Revel succeeds Martin Hirsch, who has led the first hospital group in France for almost ten years (39 establishments, nearly 100,000 employees) and who left his duties against the backdrop of the unprecedented crisis of the public hospital.

Clothed hospitals, growing medical deserts, “loss of sense” of the profession for staff, emergency services on the verge of syncope: the wounds of the care system are at the end of more than two years of pandemic who have wrung the caregivers.

With the school, it is one of the two major projects of the new five -year term of Emmanuel Macron who plans to launch his great conference on health in July with, in the end, a “real collective revolution at do “.

/Media reports.