For Olivier Véran, the lack of caregivers comes from “the organization” not “salaries”

The formula may be annoying. According to Olivier Véran, the lack of carers, which leads to the closure of beds and hospital services, does not stem from “not a problem of wages” but “of organization”.

“Many hospitals have one or more restricted or closed services”, acknowledged the Minister of Health on RMC and BFMTV, while ad hoc closures have multiplied in recent weeks, in particular in emergency services, for lack of caregivers. in sufficient numbers.

A problem of “organization” and “fatigue”

However “there are positions, there are budgets, there is money, there are salaries which have been increased to recruit these carers”, he assured, recalling that the “Ségur de health” has “improved working conditions” with increases of at least 200 euros per month, which “is not nothing”.

If these upgrades have not stemmed the hospital crisis, “I don’t think it’s a salary problem,” he said, pointing instead to “a problem of organization, bureaucracy, workload administration”. There is also “a problem of fatigue” after two years of “very significant overload” due to the pandemic and “we must also let this post-Covid wave side pass”, he added.

Medical deserts “have widened”

The Covid-19 continues to weigh on the activity of hospitals, which still receive more than 20,000 infected patients, which increases the “difficulties in finding downstream beds” for patients admitted to the emergency room. And upstream “the medical deserts have widened in our country” because of the numerus clausus – abolished during the quinquennium – which reduced the number of liberal practitioners and led to “a greater report on emergencies”, he said. Explain.

Despite this “accumulation of tensions”, Olivier Véran assured that “all French people who need access to emergency care [y] access” and that “the quality and safety of care are there”, even if “the reception conditions are not ideal”.