Lorraine region | “Reform the regional health agency in depth”

“Lannelongue, basically, was only a fuse, it applied the doctrine of the government of which the ARS is the armed wing,” said Mathieu Klein. “The ARS are designed to apply the standards of the ministry everywhere, their leeway is low, in fact, relations with elected officials are complicated. The question that can be asked is whether they have been given the right mission, “said Bernard Dupont, director general of the CHRU Nancy, a veteran health worker. “If the minister wants to move forward, he will have to rely on the province,” he added.

“This first supposes that the institution shows humility so that accounting logic and sufficiency do not reproduce the same tragedies”, poses Dominique Potier, PS deputy from Toulois, who is emerging from “a hard conflict” with the new patron of ARS Grand Est (Editor’s note: reduction in the permanence of night care in Toul).

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“Giving power to the prefects”

“What is certain is that the ARS, a budgetary body, was unsuitable for managing a health crisis,” said Jean Rottner, the president of the Grand Est region. “In the event of a crisis, it is necessary to restore power to the prefects”.

If no one, basically, calls for the removal of the ARS, elected officials of all stripes agree to demand “a reform in depth”. To “boost a territorial policy”, suggests Carole Grandjean, MP LREM. “A partnership policy”, adds Laurent Hénart, “associating communities, public and private establishments, liberals”. “In any case, rediscovering the path of dialogue, hitherto sometimes tense and difficult,” adds Mathieu Klein. “Our mission as parliamentarians is to monitor and evaluate public policies, it must be able to exercise control over the ARS and its decisions,” said Thibault Bazin.

“On condition of reinventing a healthcare system and consolidating the public sector, while associating the private sector in GHTs (regional hospital groups), which is not the case today”, warns Olivier Jacquin according to whom ” Macron organized the deficit in the social accounts ”.

The debate is open.

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