Solène Delinger 4:31 p.m., January 12, 2023

Invited on the set of "C to you" Wednesday January 11 to defend the pension reform, Olivier Véran was questioned about the hardship at work.

The government spokesperson relied on his experience as a doctor to answer questions from Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine.

"It broke my back," he said. 

Olivier Véran was present on the media front on Wednesday January 11 to defend the very controversial pension reform project presented the day before by Elisabeth Borne.

After trying to reassure listeners during the morning of

franceinfo

, the government spokesperson answered questions from the

C à vous 

team at the end of the day.

The former Minister of Health notably returned to the issue of hardship at work. 

Olivier Véran was a neurologist 

"What we want to do is prevention," he says.

"Being able to look throughout your professional life at how you avoid finding yourself in the situation where you say to the employee: 'There, you can no longer work because you are no longer in physical condition'".

Olivier Véran illustrates his point by evoking his own experience as a doctor.

The government spokesperson indeed practiced as a neurologist at the Grenoble-Alpes University Hospital, until February 2020.

"Even after the reform, France will be one of the countries in which people will retire the earliest and where they will have the longest life expectancy in good health when they retire!"



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“There is no longer any reason to go and screw up your back”

"I have already taken this example but I was a nursing assistant in an EHPAD or in the hospital. I turned people over in their beds to change clothes or change the sheets: it broke my back in the space of two or three years", he recalls. "I sometimes kept pain when the weather was not nice. she must be able to benefit from a patient lift: there is no longer any reason to go and mess up your back".

A statement full of common sense that should appease part of the medical profession…