2023-04-20 16:30:03
The position is regularly described as that of “number two” of the Ministry of Health. Professor Christian Rabaud was appointed Director General of Health on Wednesday April 19 in Council of Ministers. At the head of the medical commission for the establishment of the regional university hospital center (CHRU) of Nancy since 2018, the doctor, on the front line in his hospital during the Covid-19 crisis, must take up his new duties from May 2. .
“His long experience as an infectious disease specialist specializing in tropical diseases will be an asset in continuing to carry the One Health approach. [un concept regroupant santés humaine, de la faune et des écosystèmes], defended by François Braun, in our public health policiessays Avenue de Ségur. The Ministry of Health will also be able to count on his extensive knowledge of our health system. »
The 60-year-old doctor succeeds another infectious disease specialist, Jérôme Salomon, appointed a few days earlier to the World Health Organization as Deputy Director General for Universal Health Coverage and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases. Having become a familiar face during the surge of the first wave of Covid-19, with his daily television interventions on the hospital situation and the number of deaths, the professor specializing in public health was one of the officials questioned by parliamentarians on the shortage of masks, during the commissions of inquiry in the summer of 2020. Rumors around his departure from the general directorate of health have since circulated on several occasions.
Difficult context
University professor and hospital practitioner (PU-PH), Christian Rabaud will take up his duties in a difficult context. Since the end of the Covid-19 health crisis, many hospitals have remained under great tension, primarily in the emergency room, with an increase in the closing of beds and services, at night and on weekends, for lack of caregivers. More recently, the cap on remuneration rates for interim doctors, applied at the beginning of April, has increased the pressure on human resources already overstretched in many establishments.
“Christian Rabaud is someone who has the ability to train men and women”, praises the former director of the Nancy hospital, Bernard Dupont, with whom he formed a real “binomial”, in particular to manage the crisis unit during the years of the Covid-19 crisis. “He has developed models, taken up by regional health agencies throughout France, which have allowed us to better anticipate epidemic waves”, underlines the Lorrain, evoking about his medical counterpart a “strong personality” et “cash, always with great courtesy”.
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