The new director of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, announces the reopening of door beds in the emergency rooms of the Hôtel-Dieu. Opponents of the modernization project regain hope.
Newly appointed to the head of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris, the new director of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, seems to want to appease the anger of opponents of the New Hôtel-Dieu (NHD) project. The oldest hospital in Paris has been at the heart of a vast modernization project for months. For its supporters, it is, no more and no less, “the hospital of the 21st century”. In other words, a hospital without a bed, but with medicine focused on prevention, screening and health education.
A “low-cost” establishment, comment on its detractors who attended the closure of the emergency department on November 4. But in recent days, and with the approach of the municipal elections, the father of the RSA has given pledges to the members of the emergency support committee led for months by the emergency doctor Gerald Kierzek.
Reopening of 12 emergency room doors
In a press release published this Thursday, Martin Hirsch officially announces the reopening of the Very Short-Term Hospitalization Unit (UHTCD) of the Hôtel-Dieu, or 12 “door” beds, with reinforcement of the paramedical team at height. of 4 nurses.
In addition, the medical downstream beds are also maintained to preserve care in the event of a health crisis. Although still present at the Hôtel-Dieu, they have currently had no patients and, in fact, no staff for the past two weeks.
As such, a spokesperson for the Usap-CGT Santé confided today in the columns of the Parisian: “As long as the firefighters do not return, it is not yet the reopening but, all the same, it is a sign “. A legitimate concern because at the same time the AP-HP announced that it was maintaining its decisions on the reorientation of firefighter flows.
Regarding medicine beds, again, opponents remain skeptical. Another emergency physician interviewed this morning also qualified this announcement: “The medicine beds are maintained but remain closed to be used in the event of a crisis. “
Maintenance of medicine beds
In addition, the new director general abandons the plan to transfer the headquarters of the AP-HP to the Hôtel-Dieu. The resale of the current site on Avenue Victoria was, however, an integral part of the business plan of the Hôtel Dieu (NHD) modernization project. According to the AP-HP press release, “the New Hôtel-Dieu project is medical and hospital”, “no direct or indirect real estate ulterior motives in the definition of the project,” he said. And Martin Hirsch to drive the point home The world, by hammering “I want this site to have an entire hospital vocation. “
This latest announcement also surprised the medical commission of the AP-HP establishment, which has always supported the hospital modernization project. For its president, Professor Loïc Capron, also questioned by the daily, “Mr. Hirsch is doing a very difficult tightrope exercise. How are we going to finance the restructuring of the Hôtel-Dieu if we don’t have the head office there? I’m waiting to see how he’s gonna do it? Unless I receive specific external aid, I don’t know the financial model, ”he concludes.
.
