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During his televised address, Emmanuel Macron promised to unclog emergencies by 2024. A risky bet that leaves caregivers very doubtful…
Monday evening, at 8 p.m., President Emmanuel Macron resumed an appointment with the French to try to put an end to the pension reform which still divides the country. In a speech, deemed unconvincing by the media and politicians today, the head of state also mentioned three priority projects: one on work, one on republican order and one on progress.
Two promises made on health
Regarding health, which is part of the “progress” component, Emmanuel Macron promises profound changes in the short term:
“Our healthcare system will also be deeply rebuilt. By December, 600,000 patients with chronic illnesses who have no attending physician will have it. And by the end of next year, we should have relieved all our emergency services.”
A word that echoes his speech on the hospital in crisis last January, focused on the lack of attending physicians on the one hand and “time given back to care” on the other. However, if the health subject was mentioned on Monday, no details were developed in this last 13-minute speech.
“Nothing new for 6 years”
Dr Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor and medical director of Doctissimo, once again deplores a lack of political courage when it comes to health.
“If we want to be optimistic, we can finally say that health is now a theme integrated into the President’s speech. He understood that it was a subject concerning and a priority for the French”.
Nevertheless, the last speech does not cause any enthusiasm among health professionals:
“The problem is above all that we no longer believe in it! Health as a priority, it’s good to say it, but there’s nothing new for 6 years. Worse, it’s not a status quo for 6 years, but a worsening of the situation. It’s hard to see if these are pious wishes or incantations here, but it especially looks like something warmed up, as was done in his speech on the hospital, in Corbeil-Essonne, or even in 2017… “