Will the French suffer from the reduction in the number of beds in hospitals? The question arises when Le Figaro ensures that nearly 16,000 beds in surgery and general medicine must be removed. This measure would mark a 10% reduction in installed capacity compared to today. Ile-de-France would be the first region affected by these bed cuts with 3,108 bed closures planned between 2015 and 2017, according to the daily which produced an infographic on the subject.
This cut would be part of the public finance recovery plan, which provides for 3 billion euros in savings over three years, from 2015 to 2017. The planned restructuring should result in a decrease in hospital staff, according to the report. the newspaper.
Government denial in good standing
The question of the elimination of hospital beds is irrelevant, retorted the government. Faced with information from Figaro, the Ministry of Health cracked a press release denying the data presented. “There is no plan to close beds, any more than there is a plan to close emergency sites,” responded the cabinet of Minister Marisol Touraine in a press release. And to criticize the method used: “it is not relevant to carry out a cartography with figures resulting from working documents of the administration dated and which were moreover never taken into account in the plan of savings of the government”.
The ministry is also against the idea of staff cuts in hospitals: “the government intends to preserve hospital staff: there has been no (and there will not be) a drop in On the contrary, since 2012, nearly 30,000 more caregivers and non-caregivers have been recruited at the hospital. In 2016, the government granted 1.3 billion euros more to healthcare establishments. French “, concludes the press release.
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