Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health at the start of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, has been appointed master adviser to the Court of Auditors, the Elysée announced on Friday.
Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health at the start of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, has been appointed master adviser to the Court of Auditors, the Elysée announced on Friday.
“Agnès Buzyn, former minister, university professor-hospital practitioner, is appointed master adviser in extraordinary service at the Court of Auditors, from September 1, 2022”, announced the Presidency of the Republic in the report of the council. ministers.
Agnès Buzyn, a hematologist by profession, had notably directed the National Cancer Institute, before being appointed in 2017 Minister of Health after the election of Emmanuel Macron.
An indictment for his management of the epidemic
His time at the ministry was marked by a social movement in hospitals as well as the controversy over the end of reimbursement of homeopathy by Health Insurance, a measure in favor of which Agnès Buzyn weighed. She left the ministry in early 2020 to run for mayor of Paris, replacing the previous majority candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, at the last moment. The choice of Agnès Buzyn, who ultimately lost to outgoing socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, had been the subject of strong criticism due to the context marked by the start of the Covid pandemic in France.
The former minister, who later headed the Academy of the World Health Organization (WHO), was indicted at the end of 2021 for “endangering the lives of others” in her management of the epidemic, a decision criticized by part of the political world which fears an excessive judicialization of public action.