Didier Raoult accuses the boss of the AP-HM of being there to “clean up”

Raoult out? The director of the IHU Méditerranée Infection has it bad. Asked about his imminent departure at the head of this establishment, following a decision by the new director general of public hospitals in Marseille, Didier Raoult accused the latter of having been appointed “to clean up”.

“He arrives to clean and I am one of the objects he would like to clean”, insisted Professor Raoult, in an interview with CNews from the IHU: “He is Hirsch’s great friend, and like j ‘said what I thought of the management of Paris, which was absolutely appalling, he is very angry with me. “

Going to retire

Former deputy of Martin Hirsch, the general manager of the AP-HP, the Parisian public hospitals, François Crémieux took the post of general manager of the AP-HM in July and entrusted to the World want to start the process of recruiting a successor to Professor Raoult.

As of August 31, the latter will be officially retired as a university professor-hospital practitioner. “I could have been recruited as a contractual hospital practitioner for another two years, it would bring in more than 2 million euros per year for public assistance, because of my scientific activity which generates money”, pleads Didier Raoult , stressing that the decision on its extension request will be taken by the Board of Directors of the Foundation which oversees the IHU.