Paris (AFP)
The opposition has accused the government of letting the public "wither away" go down the street on Thursday, with Marine Le Pen even calling on health minister Agnès Buzyn to "demand a budget" or "resign".
"From the moment she (Agnès Buzyn doctor of profession, ed) comes from the hospital, she can not not know that the situation of the hospital is catastrophic, so when one is a minister in this situation, either it is necessary to have a budget to stop the closing of hundreds of beds, dozens of operating rooms, care units that close every week, or we resign, "said the president of the National Assembly on LCI.
"The power in our country, alas, it is very often in the hands of Bercy", the Ministry of Economy, which emanate "decisions that are budget," added Ms. Le Pen.
From doctors to caregivers, from deans to students, it is a breathless public hospital that is expected to demonstrate Thursday to demand more resources and manpower, while the government polishes a "plan of support" very expected.
For the leader of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau, "it requires means in addition, 800 million to 1 billion, at least, but that will not be enough".
"It is necessary to debureaucratise" the system because "it is the administration that has taken precedence over carers", "it must be decentralized," he said on France 2.
The boss of the PS Olivier Faure denounced on Sud Radio "a government which continues to let the hospital waste" because it has an "accounting vision and very narrow" and does not "seize the state in which are" the public hospitals.
"It's a two-speed society, there are those who have the Social Security card and there are those who will have the credit card" to go for treatment in the private sector, criticized the national secretary of PCF Fabien Roussel on BFMTV.
According to him, "it is missing 4 billion euros for our public health system to meet the needs of our fellow citizens in terms of public hospitals, in terms of medical desert and drugs".
Agnès Buzyn promised a "support plan". But the Minister of Health has already failed twice to get out of this conflict: neither the monthly bonus of 100 euros paid since July, nor the plan of "refoundation" announced in September were enough to lower the tension.
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