Yasmina Kattou, curated by Laura Laplaud
Pediatricians on Friday raised a cry of alarm at Emmanuel Macron deploring the working conditions and inadequate care, even as the bronchiolitis epidemic hits France, forcing some hospitals to relocate the children to other places. In response, the state released 150 million euros. But what will this money be for?
It has been a hectic weekend for the Minister of Health. On Friday, 4,000 pediatric health workers had sent an open letter to Emmanuel Macron denouncing their working conditions and inadequate care, the result of “irresponsible political inaction”. At the same time, a bronchiolitis epidemic affects almost the entire territory and some regions are forced to transfer children to hospitals far from home. The Ministry of Health on Sunday drafted an “immediate action plan” and released 150 million euros. But what will this money be for?
Recruit staff
This plan should be used for hiring staff. “You still have to find some,” admitted the Minister of Health, Francois Brown. He also wants to keep caregivers already present by promoting night work and guards, for example. The measures applied this summer for the maintenance of the hospital are back in force: doctors who accept unscheduled patients will receive 15 euros more for each visit, the procedure that will allow liberal professionals to share their working hours between their offices and the hospital. be facilitated.
Relieve stressed services
It is about relieving live services, especially pediatrics, saturated with an early outbreak of bronchiolitis. Due to lack of space, 16 children had to be relocated out of Île-de-France. The Minister of Health invites parents to make a phone call to Samu to find out if it is necessary to go to the hospital. All these emergency measures will be followed by “more permanent measures”, the government promises. To work on the structural difficulties, Pediatrics meetings are planned in the spring.
