2024-10-09 17:37:00
Employment: from increase to decrease?
“Employment is doing well”assures Christophe Robino, recalling a litany of figures attesting: 5,600 jobs created in five years, 65,000 employees today in the private sector, 53 million hours worked taxed in June 2024, an increase of 4.5% compared to June 2023.
“We have experienced a somewhat paradoxical post-Covid employment euphoria compared to Europe. But we must remain cautious. We are coming to the end of major construction projects, the finalization of these projects inevitably has consequences on the employment sector and figures show us a decrease in growth. Around a thousand jobs, according to our estimates even if we do not have solid data, could be impacted, particularly in the construction sector where. there are a lot of temporary workers. This would also have an impact on companies’ turnover, hence the importance for the government to think about diversifying activities and having new sources of income.”
The third nursing home envisaged, no longer necessary?
For several years, the government has been arguing for the need to find space and budget to build a new nursing home in the Principality, and thus increase the number of beds distributed between A Qietüdine and Cap Fleuri. On this question, Christophe Robino awaits the results of a study he commissioned concerning the needs of dependency in the Principality. “I am not convinced that the needs for nursing homes are as great as they were announced in 2018, I am even convinced that they are not”he assumes, looking instead at alternative services allowing people to stay at home, such as the itinerant guards set up by the Department of Social Affairs at the start of the school year, to ensure a presence at night with seniors who need it.
“This is the real subject: how to keep people at home as long as possible and develop structures for people who reach a level of heavy dependence where the service of a nursing home is not enough. We will review our objectives but for the moment, the need for nursing homes is almost zero today, especially since we will have around a hundred beds to meet the needs upon delivery of Cap Fleuri 1.”
Palliative care: bill still in progress
It is a text which had been submitted for study before the High Assembly, withdrawn, “and that I redeposited, confirms Christophe Robino, because I am extremely attached to the quality of end-of-life and palliative care.”
The text would provide a legal framework for caregivers. And the doctor who became a government advisor knows what he is talking about. “Palliative care is a way of supporting the physical and psychological pain of patients and families, not necessarily at the end of life. Patients suffering from incurable illnesses, whose vital prognosis is not threatened in the short or medium term, and who present significant physical suffering can carry out respite stays in hospital to adjust their treatment regimens and return home, with comfort of life.
This text will not, however, address the question of active assistance in dying, on which the legislative debate is launched in France. “Euthanasia is prohibited in the Principality and it is not our objective to condone this type of thing, warns Christophe Robino. But as with other medical activities that we don’t do in Monaco, people are free to move around and go elsewhere.”
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