2024-01-13 18:07:39
How can we reassure the health world, troubled by not having a full-time minister in the new government? Perhaps by promising him a “historic” budget for hospital services. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal guaranteed this Saturday “an additional 32 billion euros” for the health system in the next five years, promising the continuation of a “massive investment” for the public hospital, which he described as of “national treasure”.
“Among all the problems we have to solve in the country, the hospital, obviously, is at the top of the pile,” said the Prime Minister, who was visiting with the new Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity, Catherine Vautrin, the Dijon university hospital center. “With a commitment that is very clear on our part, and in line with the commitment of the President of the Republic, we will continue to invest massively in the hospital and more massively in our health system,” he continued. .
Questioned by Le Parisien, several doctors reacted with surprise to this announcement of 32 billion euros. Patrick Pelloux, president of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France, even sees it as a “publicity stunt”. “I don’t see where the government is going to get them, given the savings required. They will perhaps do it again, which would not surprise me, to say that they are investing 32 billion in debt for buildings or debt recovery, but not for staff,” he explains.
Train doctors and better care for adolescents
During his visit, the Prime Minister was also questioned by a caregiver worried about seeing the health system deteriorating in France, and faced with recruitment difficulties. “We must continue to act on the attractiveness of these professions,” he replied, explaining that the challenge “is to train more doctors.” The difficulty also presents itself in school medicine, where there is a shortage of professionals, said another caregiver to the Prime Minister. “We really need to make progress on the mental health of teenagers,” commented Gabriel Attal.
Anne Geffroy-Wernet, president of the National Union of Hospital Anesthetists-Resuscitators extended to other specialties, believes for her part that this announcement of 32 billion euros “goes in the right direction”. “It remains to be seen how these 32 billion would be broken down. Are these investments all at once to build infrastructure? Is it 6 billion per year for salaries? It’s not the same thing at all,” she adds.
According to this doctor, “they were obliged to communicate something, because there is real concern in the health world regarding the policy that will be put in place by the new Minister of Health”. Contacted, Gabriel Attal’s entourage was not able to provide details at the moment.
The latter and Catherine Vautrin visited the pediatric emergencies, the adult emergencies, then the Samu regulation platform. This trip is the Prime Minister’s fourth since his appointment on Tuesday, after a visit on Friday to a college in Yvelines with the Minister of Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, a visit to a police station in Val-d’Oise with the Minister of ‘Interior Gérald Darmanin on Wednesday and another with the victims of the floods in Pas-de-Calais on Tuesday.
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