INTERVIEW
The anger of the emergency workers, who have been on strike for six months, is not falling. While Agnès Buzyn must present Monday new measures on emergencies, Christophe Prudhomme does not fester. The spokesman of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France, asked about Europe 1, asks the Minister of Health to increase the budget of hospitals. "It is clear that we need resources immediately, both to create jobs and to increase wages," insisted the emergency doctor, who works in a hospital in Bobigny in the Paris region.
"The problem in emergencies is the mirror of dysfunctions of the health system"
Agnès Buzyn will unveil Monday a plan with several measures, including "a dedicated budget to resolve the crisis." "The specific budgets are taken elsewhere, on closed beds in other services.It is the snake that bites the tail," challenged Christophe Prudhomme. "The problem in emergencies is the mirror of the dysfunctions of the health system.What is asked is that we release the counters at the level of the finance law on social security, a 5% increase in the budget for hospitals and EPHAD, "continued the emergency physician.
"There is a very simple measure that can take the majority: it is to remove a tax that is levied on the hospital, the wage tax, which brings in 4 billion euros. law of finance and we have this oxygen balloon that we need, to then have a real social dialogue, "he warned.
"The openings of the beds is ba.ba"
Agnès Buzyn is also expected to announce "bed reopenings" at the hospital, long claimed by the strikers. "The bed openings are ba.ba, but it's a 180-degree bend.To open beds you need staff, but it blocks the issue of means.I am at AP-HP where We are closing beds for budgetary reasons, we will have to see how it will implement this measure on the beds, "said Christophe Prudhomme. The "action plan", which will be detailed on Monday, will therefore look like a last chance plan to get out of the conflict.