For the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP), a temporary health center – or polyclinic according to the official term – will be operational in the heart of the Olympic Village, which will accommodate more than 15,000 people, athletes and members of the delegations, in order to take in charge of emergencies and first resort. It will be up to the AP-HP to create and manage this center, the operation and financing of which will be governed by an agreement concluded with the JOP Organizing Committee (Cojop). This has just been signed, announced the Minister for Sports and the JOP, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, on Tuesday March 21, during the examination by the National Assembly of the bill relating to the JOP and carrying various other provisions.
This agreement provides in particular that Paris 2024 will reimburse to the nearest euro the direct and indirect expenses incurred by the AP-HP and related to operating costs (remuneration of staff, cost of supplies, equipment, medication). The AP-HP will second an administrative director, a medical director, a health manager, as well as about fifteen referents per discipline exercised. The center will operate with 200 French volunteers and 30 international volunteers, according to Paris 2024.
The running cost is estimated “to date at 3.8 million euros”according to the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, which specifies that the agreement does not relate to the compensation, for the AP-HP, of the possible care of athletes and supervisors within hospitals.
These costs will be covered by private insurance, contracted by Paris 2024, up to at least 200,000 euros, and it is the State which will bear the expenses exceeding the amount of this cover.