By 2028, the future university hospital campus will replace the current Bichat hospitals in Paris and Beaujon in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine). According to its opponents, the project will lead to the elimination of more than 300 beds.
A hundred people – caregivers, activists, residents – lay down on the asphalt on Saturday in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) to oppose the future “Grand Paris-Nord” hospital, “a socially and ecologically aberrant project” which, according to his opponents, would lead to the elimination of more than 300 beds.
With a capacity of 900 beds, the future Grand Paris-Nord university hospital campus will replace in Hôrizon 2028 the current Bichat hospitals in Paris and Beaujon in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine).
Supported by the AP-HP (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris) and the University of Paris for an estimated cost of 1.3 billion euros, it will be installed on the site of the former PSA factory in 7.19 hectares.
Project pinned by the Environmental Authority
It is in front of this site that the opponents met on Saturday at the end of the morning, before lying in the street for a “die-in” intended to materialize the hospital beds which will be removed according to them within the framework of this project, moreover recently pinned by the Environmental Authority.
“From a social point of view, urban and ecological planning, it is aberrant”, “it is one of the large useless and harmful projects which we no longer want”, denounced the LFI deputy Eric Coquerel.
Olivier Milleron, cardiologist at Beaujon hospital and member of the inter-hospital collective, for his part considered that such a project, “in an area already lacking in care”, “would end in endangering the population”, recalling that “already today one in two patients who arrive at the emergency room in Beaujon is transferred” to another hospital for lack of available beds.
Seine-Saint-Denis, the poorest department in metropolitan France and structurally under-provided with public services, recorded the highest excess mortality linked to Covid-19 during the first wave of spring 2020.
Accessibility problems and noise pollution
In an opinion consulted in mid-May by AFP, the Environmental Authority invited the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) to review its large hospital project, pointing in particular to problems of accessibility and noise pollution.
The impact study “is silent on the greenhouse gas emissions linked to the project, in the construction phase and in the operational phase”, also underlined the Authority.
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