Martin Hirsch’s release on the unvaccinated continues to be controversial. On France 5, the director general of the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) considered that the right of non-vaccinated people to continue to benefit from healthcare coverage should be questioned, a cause according to him of the overloading of hospitals. However, a report from the AP-HP contradicts its diagnosis, revealing that it is the shortage of personnel which is at the origin of the deprogramming of operations.
On Wednesday January 26, as a guest on the program “C à Vous”, the senior official relaunched the debate on the possibility of billing for hospital care for non-vaccinated people:
“There’s no reason there shouldn’t be consequences [à ne pas être vacciné] while there will be consequences for other hospitalized people” [en raison de l’encombrement des services, imputé aux non-vaccinés]. Then he added: “Should we be entitled to the same level of benefit and reimbursement? » [dès lors qu’on n’a pas appliqué les consignes de prévention, dont la vaccination].
Statements from one of the highest public health officials who did not fail to cause an outcry, since they seem to call into question the principle of equal access to care: “The nation (…) guarantees access to health for all”, according to the preamble of 1946, of constitutional value and inspired by the charter of the National Council of the Resistance.
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The deprogramming of operations caused by the shortage of nursing staff
As the reported Le Figaro, an internal document of the AP-HP – for which he is responsible – comes to put down the assertions of Martin Hirsch. This reveals that the majority of deprogramming in Île-de-France is the result of positions that have remained vacant, and not of the Omicron wave.
Also, this Sunday, January 30, during the broadcast Agree, Disagree on CNews, journalist Charlotte d’Ornellas explained: ” We saw Martin Hirsch explain to us that the non-vaccinated would have to pay for their care, because the state of the hospital would be their fault. However, there is an internal document from the AP-HP which is coming out and which reveals that the majority of deprogramming in hospitals is not due to the non-vaccinated or even to Covid, but to the lack of staff. And at the same time, we see that the nursing staff risk losing their jobs if they do not do their booster dose. »
As for Alexandre Devecchio, deputy editor-in-chief of Le Figaro, he felt that the director of the AP-HP was trying to evade his responsibilities on the current situation of the hospital whose management he oversees in Paris, by using non -vaccinated as scapegoats: “ Designating the non-vaccinated as scapegoats is a way of covering up the failure of the management of the hospital for which Martin Hirsch is one of the managers, since he heads the AP-HP and that he supported the policies of making money and cutting beds. »
For her part, epidemiologist Alice Desbiolles made the same analysis on Twitter following the publication of the report: “ According to the AP-HP, 18% of operating theaters are closed. Only 4% due to Covid. » According to this same source, the closures are mainly explained by « vacancies in the block ».
According to the AP-HP, 18% of operating theaters are closed.
Only 4% due to Covid.
The other closures are mainly explained by vacant positions in the block.
The resulting deprogramming has nothing to do with Covid patients, vaccinated or not. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/oQdWA47xdA— Dre Alice Desbiolles (@AliceDesbiolles) January 27, 2022
Stunned by the words of the former president of Emmaus, Gérald Kierzek bounced back on his Twitter account: “aBefore asking the question of free treatment or not for the non-vaccinated, the AP-HP would do better to manage the real problems “added the emergency doctor. And to continue: The Hippocratic oath is fundamental to providing our care without discrimination. Solidarity, the founding principle of social security, is just as important. As well as equality and fraternity republican mottos. » « I hesitate between I’m hurt or I’m ashamed “, concluded Dr. Kierzek, who does not take off.
The Hippocratic oath is fundamental to providing our care without discrimination. Solidarity, the founding principle of social security, is just as important. As well as equality and fraternity republican mottos. I hesitate between I’m hurt or I’m ashamed.
– Dr Gérld KIERZEK (@gkierzek) January 27, 2022
Earlier, he had split an incisive tweet at the place of the former president of Emmaüs France: “ Abbé Pierre must be turning in his grave he was indignant.
From left to right, ulcerated reactions to the statements of Martin Hirsch
After the remarks of Martin Hirsch, the reactions of indignation were not long in coming, often followed by the call for the resignation of the senior civil servant. A request that the LREM spokesperson did not hesitate to describe as ” outrageous » declaring : « I would prefer to hear them encourage vaccination rather than ask for the head of the director of the AP-HP. ” Overview.
Among those who fired red bullets at Martin Hirsch, Jacques Attali. ” Outrageous or stupid? he wonders. ” It would then be necessary to question the free care of smokers, those who consume alcohol, who are overweight… “, Judged the former senior official.
it would then be necessary to call into question the free treatment of smokers, those who consume alcohol, who are overweight or who are responsible for a road accident; and why not completely abolish free health care for everyone…scandalous or stupid? https://t.co/XVLlpEAiux
— Jacques Attali (@jattali) January 27, 2022
At La France Insoumise, MP Danièle Obono demanded the resignation of the official, recalling that the care is not free and that it is financed by the entire taxpayer: “ The government he supports has closed, in four years, 17,600 hospital beds and 5,700 hospitalizations in the midst of a pandemic. Since he has been at the head of the AP-HP, he has participated in the breakage of the health system paid for by the vaccinated and unvaccinated “, she wrote.
The government he supports has closed 17,600 hospital beds and 5,700 hospitalizations in the midst of a pandemic in 4 years. Since he has been at the head of the APHP, he has participated in the destruction of the health system paid for by the vaccinated and unvaccinated.# NéAvantLaHonte #HirschDemission https://t.co/h8d16WKlXB
— Deputy Obono (@Deputee_Obono) January 27, 2022
For Marine le Pen, Martin Hirsch “ should be replaced because his remarks are unworthy of the position he occupies. »
For his part, MEP Gilbert Collard, who has just joined Eric Zemmour’s Reconquête party, denounced a ” unacceptable irony that unvaccinated people cannot benefit from the AME reserved for undocumented migrants ».
For Florian Philippot, Martin Hirsch’s idea would amount to ” let the poor die »…
Martin Hirsch wants to make the non-vaccinated pay so that they continue to be treated!
Do we let the poor die?
This kind of guy in a normal country would be sacked on the spot! https://t.co/5GNuTXJ0FP— Florian Philippot (@f_philippot) January 26, 2022
On his blog, the associate professor of history, Patrice Gibertie, calling Martin Hirsch “a embodiment of eco-social technocratic opportunism “He said that our hospitals, our health system are plagued by highly paid bureaucrats who have an accounting rule instead of the heart. Mainly on the left, they like the people like others the beefsteak… »
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Lawyer Juan Branco, for his part, focused on the salary of the senior official, responsible according to him for the destruction of the public hospital.
Receiving 200,000 euros a year thanks to contributors’ money, destroying the public hospital, carrying out staff reductions saturating caregivers, destroying the lives of thousands of French people Then: https://t.co/4VCnalgL8L
— Juan Branco (@anatolium) January 26, 2022
On LCI, André Bercoff wondered ” how Hirsch doesn’t look in the mirror in the morning without puking »…
@andrebercoff answer to #MartinHirsch #MartinHirschDehors #PassVaccinal #nonvaccines pic.twitter.com/BAmaZOmK92
— KiKou (@KiKou27276946) January 27, 2022
For philosophy professor René Chiche, Martin Hirsch’s output illustrates ” the inherent tendency of technocracy towards barbarism ».
The rantings of Martin Hirsh concerning “the irresponsible” who must be deprived of care or the introduction of a “citizen’s certificate” illustrate the inherent tendency of technocracy towards barbarism, but whether published by @lemondefr also says a lot regarding the era.
— Rene Chiche (@rene_chiche) January 27, 2022
« I’m stuck “, was indignant Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson for the NPA and Philippe Poutou, on RMC. “ Those who have closed 5,700 hospital beds in the midst of a health crisis, even them, I do not wish them to pay if they go to intensive care. Even Emmanuel Macron, if he goes to intensive care, I don’t want him to take out his wallet. Mr. Hirsch had better tone it down and tackle the real issues. There is a lack of staff in nursing homes and hospitals “, he asserted.
Finally, essayist Idriss Aberkane request if it should not since the abominable remarks of Martin Hirsch, rename the AP-HP in “Non-Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris” » ?
The final word for the essayist Maxime Tandonnet, who in an inspired column (Figaro Vox), sees in it the continuity of a strategy of the scapegoat (“haro sur le donkey!”) and laments that “the passage of Abbé Pierre to the vaccination pass and to a logic of exclusion [soit] a symptom of a disoriented society, in the throes of shipwreck and losing its most elementary intellectual and moral bearings. »