2023-12-22 04:37:01
Former Minister of Health Aurélien Rousseau (center), at the National Assembly, December 19, 2023. SARAH MEYSSONNIER/REUTERS
How long will the next health minister stay? Enough to embody a cape? If the resignation of Aurélien Rousseau, Wednesday December 20, is due to his opposition to the “immigration” bill and the promised reform of state medical aid (AME) by Matignon for January, those involved in the world of health are already fearing a new period of uncertainty and uncertainty, while time is running out for a system in great difficulty.
Nurses, doctors, hospital workers… Positions have multiplied over the past forty-eight hours to welcome a decision deemed courageous by caregivers fiercely opposed to calling into question the AME, but also to question the place of health. “What conclusions should we draw regarding the importance attributed by the government to health-related subjects? When will the game of musical chairs end? », questions the National Union of Liberal Nurses, in a press release released Thursday, December 21.
Among the resuscitation anesthetists of the SNPHARE union, we regret this “ waltz of ministers » with “the fear of seeing once once more all the work in progress go into the boxes of the person who is leaving”. “All the discussions, all the projects in progress will stop dead in their tracksalso fears Action hospital practitioners. Hospital workers are very resilient, they have been patient, but today they are at the limit of what they can bear! »
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Including the upcoming appointment, this will make five ministers who will have succeeded one another in less than two years, some very briefly – with Brigitte Bourguignon from May to July 2022, then François Braun, for one year. Appointed in July 2023, Aurélien Rousseau will have remained in charge for five months, before Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Minister for Health Professions, inherits the interim role.
A rise in rank accompanied by a first controversy: according to information from Mediapart, the latter would have received as a pharmacist, from 2015 to 2020, gifts from Urgo laboratories with an estimated value of 20,000 euros, without declaring them. Questioned by France Bleu Normandie on Friday, the minister confirmed that “ An investigation is underway [la visant dans le cadre de sa] function of pharmacist”, reserving his ” trades “ to ” competent authorities “.
A complicated handover. And following ? Health, “these are essential subjects, we cannot leave them vacant”assured the Head of State on France 5, Wednesday evening, however only allowing a few minutes – out of two hours of interview – to the problem.
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