"I am making an appeal, especially in nursing homes we need reinforcement. We have open positions, funded positions which are not filled," said the Minister of Health on Sunday. 

"I am making an appeal, especially in nursing homes, we need reinforcement," Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Sunday, calling on caregivers to come and fill "open positions, funded positions, which are not filled".

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"We have funded positions that are not filled"

"There are several hundred thousand graduate nurses who no longer practice in our country because the profession was not attractive enough. The Ségur de la Santé is an increase in attractiveness, an increase in social and financial recognition ”, assured Olivier Véran to the RTL-

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Referring to the minimum wage increase of 183 euros net for all paramedical hospital staff (nurses, nursing assistants) and non-medial (technical and administrative agents) recorded by the "Ségur agreements", the minister assured that "the hospital is attractive".

"I am making a call, especially in nursing homes, we need reinforcement. We have open positions, funded positions which are not filled," he added.

"Prevent people from going to intensive care, this is the stake"

Asked about the number of beds available in intensive care in the face of the coronavirus epidemic, the minister assured that "we could not build intensive care units overnight to accommodate 5,000 patients", putting more emphasis on the hospital was able to "have modular activities and change one activity into another".

"In 6 months, we bought all the respirators, we made a strategic state stock of all the essential drugs to be able to take care of the patients in intensive care," he said.

"We are able to treat up to 29,000 patients in intensive care and 12,000 if it was necessary on a given day".

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"This capacity to amplify the structures of the intensive care units beds, it is real but it is done to the detriment of the departments of normal activity of the surgical blocks and the recovery rooms", he said.

"What we have to do is prevent people from going to intensive care, that is the stake!"