The appointment of Pierre-Edouard Fournier to the management of the Marseille Institute is accompanied by a sidelining of support from Didier Raoult and the promise of peaceful governance.
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a Institut hospital-universitaire Méditerranée infection (IHU) , time is no longer arrogance and provocations. The inexpressible Marseille fortress of Professor Didier Raoult, hence the microbiologist broadcast his opinions on the epidemic of COVID-19, now displays external signs of normalization. The professor, made internationally famous by his promotion of Hydroxychloroquine, was replaced in the management of IHU on 1 er September. And Friday, October 7, the new officials of this pole specializing in infectious and tropical diseases where more than 850 people work will convince the Minister of Health and the Minister of Research for their desire to put this unique structure in France on rails.
François Braun and Sylvie Retailleau jointly summoned the governance of IHU after the publication in August of a devastating report diligent by their institutions. This survey, signed by the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs and the General Inspectorate of Research, pointed out “a drift of governance” of the Institute, “deviant medical and scientific practices”, “a mode of management generating discomfort at work or even harassment “or” prescriptions that do not respect the public health code “.
Certain elements harvested may constitute crimes and the ministers have seized the Marseille prosecutor under article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The file is still being studied by the judges of the health center which will soon decide if they give it a sequel. If a judicial information is open, it will be added to a first procedure affecting the IHU. Launched in July after a first report from drug safety agency , it concerns clinical trials carried out without authorization and the possible falsification of documents.
“an act of humility”
In Paris, the new director general of IHU, Professor Pierre-Edouard Fournier, 56, moves with the president of the Mediterranean Foundation infection, the State Councilor Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave, and her vice- President, the former boss of Renault, Louis Schweitzer, both elected a week earlier. The president of Aix-Marseille University, Eric Berton, and the director general of the University Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM), François Crémieux, accompany them. They represent the founding members who, in the summer of 2021, triggered the long procedure to sidelined Didier Raoult.
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