Frédéric Valletoux, the president of the Fédération Hospitalière de France, calls on the government to "measure up" to the mobilization of caregivers during the Covid-19 crisis by launching a major reform. Invited to Europe 1 on Friday, he believes that this would mark "real recognition" towards caregivers.

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"The bonus is good, but it's the aperitif. We need a New Deal for the healthcare system and the hospital." The day after the announcement by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran of a premium for all caregivers, the president of the French Hospital Federation, Frédéric Valletoux reminded Europe Europe that the Covid-19 crisis has arrived on " fund of social discontent and very strong tensions "of the hospital system for several months. 

A coronavirus in the context of a hospital crisis

The coronavirus arrived "on a sick hospital, crossed by deep financial tensions and a recruitment crisis", recalls the one who is also mayor of Fontainebleau, in Seine-et-Marne. If he recognizes "a positive signal" and a "mark of recognition" in this state bonus for caregivers, he believes that "the issues are not going to be resolved by this bonus" and now calls "to a great "post-crisis," a New Deal "meeting.

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Fund reform, the government's "real mark of recognition"

"It's been 15 years that we have seen the system disintegrate, 15 years that medical deserts have progressed. We put the hospital on a diet for years and today, we have to change the paradigm" he advances . "Hospital workers were there during the crisis, the government must now be up to the task by giving itself the means to finance the health system." A reform that would demonstrate a "real mark of recognition", insists on the microphone of Europe 1 Frédéric Valletoux

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"We have to spend better"

Especially since this funding would not cost more than the 12% of GDP that the State injects into public health every year, according to him. "We have to spend better by attacking certain rents and redistributing differently." And if the government "returns to the Greek calendars of fundamental reforms", it warns: "The expectation and the needs are such that we are going to have a revolt and a system that will stop."