The plans for the reorganization of health facilities are "obviously suspended," wrote Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on Monday in a letter to the mayor of Nancy, who was astonished at the desire of the ARS du Grand Est to continue the deletions of post.
This development comes after the outcry provoked during the weekend by the director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Grand-Est, Christophe Lannelongue, who had estimated, in the middle of the coronavirus crisis, that there had "no reason" to stop the abolition of posts and beds at the Nancy CHRU.
"Sharing together the conditions for the overhaul of our hospital system"
"Tomorrow, we will have to learn all the lessons from this unprecedented crisis and share together the conditions for the overhaul of our hospital system," wrote the head of government.
"And as indicated by the Minister of Solidarity and Health, the plans for the reorganization of health establishments are obviously suspended from the major consultation that will have to be carried out in this context," he continued in his letter, arguing that "today, the State's commitment to support our hospitals and our carers is total and nothing should distract us from its implementation".
Five-year cuts in beds and workstations
Christophe Lannelongue had estimated that there was "no reason to question" the interministerial committee for the performance and modernization of the hospital care offer (Copermo), which provides for the abolition over five years of 174 beds (out of 1,577 in 2018) and 598 positions at the Nancy CHRU (out of around 9,000).
This position had then been deemed "totally out of place", "both disconcerting and indecent", by the mayor of Nancy, Laurent Hénart (Radical movement) and the president of the medical committee of the CHRU of Nancy, Professor Christian Rabaud, in a letter addressed to Edouard Philippe and to the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
"The time has come for everyone to be mobilized"
The minister had already said Sunday that the reorganization plans were suspended, estimating on Twitter, that, "in Nancy as everywhere, the time is for everyone to mobilize to face the Covid-19".
The president of the Departmental Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle, the socialist Mathieu Klein, had for his party indicated to have written to Emmanuel Macron "to ask him to cancel the debt of the public hospital", in particular that of the CHRU of Nancy, and to "not initiate the abolition of additional posts".
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