The director of the Grand-Est regional health agency, Christophe Lannelongue, was sacked on Wednesday, after a controversy over the fate of Nancy hospital, in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
"There is no reason to question" the reorganization of the Nancy hospital, said Christophe Lannelongue Friday, during a telephone press conference. That is to say the abolition, over five years of 174 beds (out of 1,577 in 2018) and 598 positions at the Nancy University Hospital (out of around 9,000).
A decision by the Élysée
Before the indignant reactions, in particular those of the mayor (MR) of Nancy, Laurent Hénart, and of the president (PS) of the departmental council of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Mathieu Klein, Prime Minister Edouard Phlippe had made known that "the plans of The reorganization of health establishments is obviously suspended from the major consultation that will have to be carried out in this context. ”
According to L'Obs, it was at the request of President Emmanuel Macron that this replacement was made.
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