"I want to get out of this hospital-business approach that has lasted for many, many years, with funding based on accounting elements and not on health needs," she said at a conference. press after a visit to the Parisian hospital Bichat.
The hospital, whose staff are strained by the Covid-19 crisis which has led to successive waves of hospitalizations, is one of the key subjects of the presidential election.
"We are not going to measure the efficiency of the hospital with regard to its cost control on pathologies such as cancer," argued the mayor of Paris, preferring to rely on the capacity of hospitals to treat and save patients. patients ".
The socialist contender, credited with 3 to 5% of the voting intentions according to the polls, thus wishes "to get out of the Ondam (National objective of health insurance expenditure)," this set of budgetary criteria ", and the replace with "criteria linked to health needs".
If she is elected President of the Republic, Anne Hidalgo also promised an annual debate in the National Assembly in March on "the needs in terms of hospital structures, training of doctors, nurses, midwives. women and nursing assistants "as well as" territorial work "in order to better meet the specific demands of the various hospitals.
The Socialist candidate recalled her proposal to put an end to the numerus clausus, indicating that if the presidential majority had announced the abolition of this system which limits the number of students, it continued "since the means of the faculties of medicine do not have not been increased to be able to train the 15,000 doctors that France needs each year ".
Beyond a "massive recruitment of personnel" and a large revaluation in the public and the private already advanced, Anne Hidalgo wants to make "the good place to the prevention" in company where she "will re-establish the hygiene committees and safety of working conditions "as at school through" health education through diet and physical activity ".
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