2.5 billion euros additional for healthcare establishments

Olivier Véran -

Euros more in the face of the second wave.

The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced Tuesday before the National Assembly an additional envelope of 2.5 billion euros for health establishments in the face of the coronavirus epidemic.

“We are now facing a second wave that affects our entire territory.

Its financial impact is difficult to estimate but it will not be sustainable within the framework of the Ondam (National objective of health insurance expenditure) at its current level ”, launched the Minister, at the start of the debates on the Social Security budget project.

A sum delegated in several stages

"By amendment, we are going to introduce a prudential provision of two billion euros additional, which will be added to the Social Security financing bill, in order to ensure that health establishments can cover the additional costs and losses of revenues suffered in the coming weeks, ”he said.

He then specified that this envelope of "2.5 billion", in addition to the increase of 10 billion of the Ondam already planned for 2020, "will be delegated in several stages and will be placed under the responsibility of the regional health agencies. who will allocate it as closely as possible to the situation of the establishments ”.

It will include 50 million euros "to open 4,000 beds on demand from 2020 in our hospitals".

And also the financing of the announcements last Thursday of the Prime Minister in favor of the personnel, with an advancement to December of increases in personnel salaries and an “overvaluation of overtime” during the health crisis.

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