State hospitals are alerting. Political instability “hurts” hospitals, when the executive usually works on the future social security budget and health should be a “priority” for the start of the academic year, the president of the French Hospital Federation announced on Wednesday, calling for a minister to be appointed “quickly”.
During the summer period, when hospitals are “especially mobilized” to allow continuity of care despite the strain on human resources, this year they have redoubled their efforts; strengthen their abilities during the Olympic Games FHF President Arno Robine reminded during an interview with AFP.
The situation in the emergency room is “similar” to previous summers, when the reception is “generally maintained”, even if it is in places that are determined by the initial call to Samu. The facilities for the Olympic Games are “in working condition” and the services “will remain available”, he assured.
“Full exercise” of health care.
Asked about the political situation, he recalled that in the summer, usually, “we start working with ministerial offices that are interested in developing a Social Security financing bill” for the following year, which is usually presented in September. “Today it is not like that,” he regretted. “This worries us, considering the highly degraded state of the state hospital,” he said.
“If we don’t have a government, we don’t have an interlocutor, assembly, which is divided into three blocks, we risk renewing the PLFSS from 2024, which would be very damaging to the entire healthcare system,” he warned. “The President of the Republic, outside of political contingencies”, should appoint a “government capable of working as quickly as possible”, called for the appointment of a “full” minister of health”, and not a delegated minister, because health “must be the priority of the state”.
“The public hospital will approach the start of the academic year in a very degraded state, with a deficit of 1.7 billion euros in 2023,” and “nursing homes are in the same situation. 80% of them are in deficit”, he reminded. Arno Robin. The FHF is therefore calling on the next government to “guarantee the sustainability of the public hospital” in its decisions and take inflation into account, while it says the 2024 budget is “missing” €1.3 billion to offset price increases. .
Among the “priorities to return to politics”, the executive must support certain subjects “mainly provided by the public hospital”, which suffer from “underutilization of care” and therefore “underfunding”, he insisted.
Hospital activity has slowed significantly since then The Covid-19 pandemic It was restarted in 2023, but insufficient for the most serious care, namely “digestive care, cardiology, nervous system and rheumatology,” he explained.