Emmanuel Macron goes to the bedside of caregivers this Tuesday afternoon. The President of the Republic has an appointment in Cherbourg at 4:15 p.m., for a trip devoted to access to urgent and unscheduled care. The Head of State is expected at the Cotentin public hospital center, where he must discuss the problems encountered in many emergency services in France, as is the case at the Cherbourg hospital.
Accompanied by the new Minister of Health Brigitte Bourguignon, he will meet several links in the chain of urgent care: emergency physicians from the Cherbourg hospital and the SAMU of Saint-Lô, nurses, general practitioners, and the management of the hospital center and the Regional Health Agency, which have set up a method of coordination between the city and the hospital to guarantee access to urgent and unscheduled care.
This visit is part of the continuity of the Ségur de la santé, highlights the Elysée. Launched in May 2020, this major consultation had brought together the actors of the healthcare system with a view to a series of measures, adopted in July of the same year. “The Ségur de la santé has made it possible to make unprecedented investments”, boasts the Elysée on Monday. “But deep difficulties today make these jobs difficult and not attractive enough” recognizes the presidency.
For several months, caregivers have been warning about the increased lack of personnel and resources in the emergency services. At least 120 of them have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a list drawn up by the association Samu-Urgences de France (SUdF). The hospital staff is also preparing for a “chaotic” summer a few weeks before the summer holidays. The Élysée therefore wants to “go further through structural and in-depth collective work, by identifying the conditions for the success of a recruitment and retention plan in all sectors.”
