French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday a new national health plan amid the saturation denounced in recent weeks by the country’s doctors and which has led the Elysee to recognize «very strong tensions» with the sector and its professionals, exhausted by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
«The crisis we are experiencing is not just a media crisis. It is a multifactorial crisis, much more complex than simply a problem of money, because during the COVID-19 era we already made the greatest economic effort in the history of the French healthcare system,» said the president during a visit to the Sur Ile de France Hospital Center in Corbeil-Essonnes.
The new plan, which has yet to be fully specified, involves a «reorganization of work in hospitals» for next summer through the setting up of a «medical-administrative tandem».
The French President has also announced an increase in the number of auxiliary medical personnel from 4,000 to 10,000 assistants by the end of next year, according to a press conference reported by ‘Le Figaro’ and ‘Le Monde’.
«What I want is that we can also apply this increase to hospitals, where we will move administrative, logistical and technical staff closer to the services to allow caregivers to concentrate on the heart of their work,» explained the president, who acknowledged that the list of shortcomings «is long» and it will take a decade to completely remodel the healthcare network.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
