The inauguration of the committee, which during a quarter will work on six work areas, was welcomed with caution by health professionals on the ground while a “triple epidemic” comes to undermine a system already ” out of breath “.
by Mattea Battaglia
Can Pediatric Assizes allow you to respond to the “hypercrise” that the sector is going through? The word was in all the mouths, this Wednesday, September 7, the day of the installation of the orientation committee responsible for preparing these future foundations, scheduled in the spring. “Hypercrise”, therefore, but also “ultracris”, “historical crisis”, “unprecedented crisis” …: these expressions resonated, in the entourage of the Minister of Health, François Braun, who chaired the inauguration of the said Committee , as in the interventions in front of the press of his two newly named co -presidents.
The bronchiolitis epidemic, of an unequaled level for ten years, has highlighted “flaws, difficulties and weaknesses” in the face of which emergency measures are no longer sufficient, explained the professor and pediatrician Christèle Gras- The Guen, president of the French Pediatric Society, pleading for “in -depth reform”. Joining her on the observation and objective, the former secretary of state in charge of childhood and families, Adrien Taquet, defended a “historic opportunity” to improve the health system.
The pair has before him a quarter and six work areas – on the career of children’s care, the care of the most fragile, mental health, prevention, training and innovation – to bring out, In collaboration with multiple actors (doctors, elected officials, associations, parents, etc.), a “roadmap”, according to the somewhat overused formula, which will have to be detailed during the assizes. But a quarter, and yet another consultation, is not already too much to wait, while caregivers, especially in the hospital, take full force either a single epidemic but three-bronchiolitis, from COVID-19 and flu? And that this “triple wave” hit a health system already “breath”, in the words of Mr. Braun?
In full runny in epidemic indicators, and on the eve of a trip, Thursday, December 8 in Vienne, of the President of the Republic and the Minister of Health, devoted to a Refoundation-Health Council, at the ‘Access to care and prevention of younger generations, the installation of the ad hoc committee aroused, in the field, first measured reactions.
“untenable situation”
“We expect a lot from this preparatory work and these foundations, concedes Julie Starck, a playful pediatrician at the Trousseau hospital, hoping that they do not succeed, as we have already seen, to yet another report With proposals that will not be implemented. “” This meeting is an opportunity, provided that it is followed by immediate commitments “, reacts, in the same vein, Mélodie Aubart, neuropediatric at Necker Hospital . The two doctors, animators of the pediatric collective, plead so that “strong commitments” are made, even before the foundations, in order to curb the hemorrhage of caregivers.
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