Faced with the deterioration of the climate, Marisol Touraine announces the postponement of the closure of the emergency rooms of the Hôtel-Dieu. Scheduled for November, the minister now wants consultation with doctors.
Back off to better blow up ? This is perhaps the strategy adopted by the Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine, who announced on Wednesday at the end of the Council of Ministers the postponement of the transformation project of the Hôtel-Dieu (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris , AP-HP) in the face of “climate degradation”.
Object of the discord, the closure of emergencies scheduled for November 4. For two years, it has caused the discontent of part of the medical team as well as many politicians. The Hôtel Dieu is in fact at the heart of a vast modernization project, which plans to make it “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 its detractors.
In addition, this postponement announcement comes two days after the decision by the management of the AP-HP to suspend from his functions Dr Gérald Kierzek, head of the mobile emergency and resuscitation service (SMUR) of the Hotel- God. The latter had carried out an alternative hospital transformation project based on maintaining an emergency service, supported by a technical platform (imaging and biology), general internal medicine and geriatrics (acute and patient care). suite) and psychiatry with an outpatient surgery center and a type 1 maternity unit. Project rejected for the moment by management. Since the announcement of the sanction, the emergency physician has received numerous support from trade unions, defense committees and elected officials of all stripes. On the side of the management, we assure in a press release that “the decision to suspend Gerald Kierzek from his functions was aimed at ensuring the proper functioning of this service. “
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