Olivier Véran is visiting Nice this Saturday morning. The Minister of Health is coming to meet professionals in a department particularly affected by the second wave of the coronavirus. The Alpes-Maritimes is the department where the incidence rate of the virus is highest in mainland France, with nearly 600 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. An even higher rate in Nice, 751 per 100,000 inhabitants, which makes it the most affected metropolis in France.
The program of his visit: The Minister of Health is adding to his program a visit to the intensive care unit of the Hospital l’Archet
- 9:30 am: Olivier Véran has arrived. The Minister of Health will add to his program a passage in the resuscitation service of the Archet hospital in Nice.
- 10am: with health professionals in the Moulins district.
Olivier Véran meets the carers of the CPTS, the territorial professional health community, Nice Vallée in the Moulins district. This type of center welcomes all the health players in a region: doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, specialists … to streamline patient care.
- 11am: with healthcare professionals from l’Archet hospital
The Minister of Health then went to l’Archet hospital. The heads of the infectious disease department of the Nice University Hospital will present him with the care of patients with coronavirus, then Olivier Véran visits the immunology department and must discuss with a patient suffering from a long form of Covid.
A meeting is planned with the general secretary of the health branch of the Force Ouvrière union in the Alpes-Maritimes. “Every day, I meet staff who are suffering: this is what we will explain to him, I hope he will listen to us and that we will have answers, explain Michel Fuentes. We must stop playing on the professional conscience of the staff and give ourselves better working conditions. 300 jobs are missing at the CHU de Nice, we are asking for new hires. “
- 12 noon: in a vaccination center
The ministerial visit ends in a vaccination center in downtown Nice, where a new exchange with caregivers is planned.
The president of the Alpes-Maritimes department, Charles-Ange Ginésy, awaits strong announcements on this subject of vaccination. “We are waiting for a truly massive vaccination to be able to curb this spread of the virus, he asks. And I also expect a lot of teaching about the different vaccines, as well as the means to enforce the rules, especially those which curfew at 6 p.m. which is not respected by anyone “.
Olivier Véran must then leave at the end of the morning. No official meeting is a priori planned with the elected officials of the department.
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