• According to a flash survey led by the President of the Scientific Council, around one in five beds is currently closed in the CHUs and CHRs in France, for lack of nurses and nursing assistants, but also of tenured doctors, to make them all work.

  • Interviewed by

    Liberation

    , which revealed the data of this survey on Wednesday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran admits that "a certain number of units in hospitals are forced to temporarily close, or to reduce the wing, for lack of caregivers , especially for lack of being able to recruit them ”.

  • According to a study conducted among 16 CHUs, there is an increase of nearly a third of vacant positions among paramedics compared to fall 2019.

Bloodless hospital services, sometimes condemned to close beds for lack of personnel.

This is the alarming observation drawn up by a flash investigation led by the President of the Scientific Council, Jean-François Delfraissy and revealed this Wednesday by

Liberation

.

According to this study, about one in five beds is currently closed in the CHUs and CHRs in France, for lack of nurses and nursing assistants, but also of tenured doctors, to make them all work.

In the Paris region, these figures are corroborated by the data sent to

Liberation

by the AP-HP: “according to official figures, 19% of beds were closed in September 2021, ie twice as many as in the previous situation. -Covid (the closure rate was already 9% in September 2019), as Martin Hirsch certifies.

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"A suffering health system"

A critical situation that was already mentioned by the scientific council in its opinion of October 5: “Concurring data collected from the major French hospital structures (administrative and medical) show a health system suffering with: 1) a large number of vacant jobs (…); 2) in large hospitals, whatever the region, a significant percentage of beds closed due to lack of personnel, in all healthcare sectors including pediatrics. These figures seem higher than in previous autumns (…) ”

Interviewed this Wednesday in

Liberation

, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran believes that "no one today knows how to give a precise figure" of the beds closed for lack of personnel but admits that "a certain number of units in hospitals are obliged to to close temporarily, or to reduce the sails, for lack of caregivers, especially for lack of being able to recruit them ”.

The minister also confirms, according to a study conducted with 16 CHUs, an increase of nearly a third of vacant positions among paramedics compared to the fall of 2019.

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Among the reasons put forward: absenteeism "which increases by one point over the same period for non-medical personnel".

But also resignations which

"

 increase more significantly between 2020 and 2021 than between 2019 and 2020".

"They remain nevertheless in moderate proportions", according to Olivier Véran.

“Some caregivers leave the hospital because they are tired after twenty months of health crisis.

These departures can put teams and departments in difficulty because recruitments are also difficult.

It is a reality "taken" head-on, assures the Minister of Health.

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