While the emergency services are saturated and many caregivers are sounding the alarm, Emmanuel Macron, visiting this Tuesday, May 31 in the afternoon at the hospital center in Cherbourg (Manche), must announce, according to our information, the launch of a “flash mission” on this file.
This must be entrusted to François Braun, the president of Samu-Emergencies of France and head of pole at the CHR of Metz-Thionville. A professional close to the Head of State. During the presidential campaign, François Braun was one of the two “relays” of the candidate president on health issues. Its role was then to mobilize the networks of the health sector.
A difficult situation in the hospital
This initiative comes twenty days before the first round of legislative elections, in a context where medical deserts are one of the subjects of the campaign, especially in rural areas. In question: the low attractiveness of emergencies, the lack of qualified personnel and the fatigue linked to the successive waves of the Covid-19 epidemic.
“Staff have not been able to take their leave for two consecutive summers and are taking it now, which empties certain services, analyzes Horizons MP Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo. And this comes to telescope with the situation of the hospital which was already complicated before the health crisis. Not to mention that some caregivers have thrown in the towel and that there is a shortage of city doctors. »