To deal with the mobilization of hospital staff against the pension reform, but also provide care while public transport is almost stopped, Agnès Buzyn ensures that everything has been done to ensure continuity of care. "Every day, we adapt our device," she says.

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The mobilization against the pension reform begins strongly. Thursday, 800,000 people marched through the streets of France, according to the Interior Ministry, 1.5 million according to the unions. Among the protesters, railway workers, air traffic controllers, teachers but also members of the hospital staff. To cope with absences and transportation difficulties, the hospitals organized themselves. Agnès Buzyn, the Minister of Health and Solidarity, says on Europe 1 that continuity of care would be assured.

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"We have worked with hospitals and EPHAD to anticipate this strike," said the minister. There were assignments of some striking personnel if it posed operational difficulties in service. We can not take the slightest risk with people's lives. "

"There is a form of solidarity"

In the absence of certainty about the duration of the mobilization, a crisis unit was installed in the ministry. "Every day, I am reminded of the difficulties in the region and for the moment there are none." Measures have been implemented, such as carpooling organized in Ile-de-France. "Beds have been kept in hotels or hospitals to accommodate medical staff," adds the health minister. "Every day we adapt our device so that continuity of care is ensured."

Thursday, Agnès Buzyn was at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris. She found that the caregivers were sleeping at each other's homes, and that some of the hospital's neighbors had even offered rooms to the staff. "There is a form of solidarity for the moment, so that the hospital service works because it is a pillar of our institution." Most services have also postponed non-urgent interventions to next week.