At the National Assembly, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced an additional envelope of 2.5 billion euros for health establishments.

A decision justified by the "second wave which affects the whole of the territory".

Faced with the increase in cases of coronavirus, health establishments will benefit from a budget extension.

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

An increase by amendment

"We are now facing a second wave which affects our entire territory. Its financial impact is difficult to estimate but it will not be sustainable within the framework of the Ondam (National health insurance expenditure target) at its current level ", launched the minister, at the start of the debates on the draft budget of the Social Security.

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"By amendment, we will introduce a prudential provision of an additional 2 billion euros, 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.

"Open 4,000 beds on demand from 2020 in our hospitals"

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 ".

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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 the wages of the personnel and an "overvaluation of overtime" during the health crisis.