Hospital: Jean Castex promises that "significant investments" will be "announced in the coming weeks" -

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New investments to come therefore.

In an interview with

Ouest-France

published on Friday, Jean Castex promised that “significant investments” would be “announced in the coming weeks” for hospitals, in addition to the Ségur de la Santé.

"Significant investments will also be announced in the coming weeks, not to mention the assumption of a third of the hospital debt", declared the Prime Minister to the regional daily, on the eve of a visit to Brittany.

Asked by AFP, Matignon did not provide any details on these investments.

8.2 billion euros in salary increases

In the context of the health crisis, the executive had already gone to the bedside of the hospital system last summer with the Ségur de la Santé, which resulted in an envelope of 8.2 billion euros in salary increases as well as 15,000 hires.

Added to this is the recovery of hospital debt to the tune of 13 billion euros.

Praising the solidity of the “French system”, Jean Castex nevertheless called for “remaining pragmatic and learning the lessons of a crisis”: “if reforms must be initiated, they will be”, he added.

In Matignon, "the months count triple"

The Prime Minister is due to go on Saturday first near Brest for the inauguration of the headquarters of the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), then to a company near Rennes, in order to promote the government mechanism to help hiring young people.

"As soon as I can go to the territories, I am the happiest of men," he testified.

Asked about the requirement of the post of Prime Minister, Jean Castex considered that it was comparable to “Scrabble”, namely that “the months count triple”.

“What I can tell you is that I don't have boredom.

There is nothing more galvanizing than having the honor of serving your country when it is in turmoil, ”he continued.

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