Visiting Thursday at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, where the first French victim of the coronavirus died, Emmanuel Macron was arrested by a doctor on the difficulties of the public hospital. "We are at the end," explained to the President of the Republic Doctor François Salachas, neurologist and member of the inter-hospital collective.
"The hospital staff made all the necessary efforts. We are at the end," said François Salachas to Emmanuel Macron, asking him to "give the means to the Ministry of Health". "It is absolutely necessary to refinance the public hospital", he asked again, denouncing a year of "denial", in a video broadcast by BFMTV.
"When it was necessary to save Notre-Dame, there were many people to be moved. There, we must save the public hospital"
A Pitié-Salpêtrière neurologist questions Emmanuel Macron about the crisis in the public hospital ⤵ pic.twitter.com/zjmqtg4I8a
Macron claims not to be "in denial"
"When it was necessary to save Notre-Dame, there were a lot of people to be moved. There, we have to save the public hospital, which is burning up at the same speed as Notre-Dame almost burned down. 'is played at nothing and there, at the moment, it is played at nothing ", added the member of the inter-hospital collective. And tackle the President of the Republic: "You can count on me. The reverse remains to be proven". Returning to the epidemic of Coronavirus, the neurologist explained to the Head of State that "without the injection of rapid means, we will not be able to face this type of crisis".
For his part, Emmanuel Macron assured not to be "in denial", but said he sometimes had "the feeling of paying the addition of open accounts". "There are emergency measures which have been taken on several occasions", he recalled, before adding: "These already announced measures must already go down on the ground". "We have not been sitting on his chair for two and a half years," insisted Emmanuel Macron.