Health: “We must attribute the disintegration of the hospital to all our policies”

Bed closures, lack of caregivers … This is nothing new, the hospital is suffering. While some accuse the unvaccinated against Covid-19 of clogging up hospital services, Professor Michaël Peyromaure, head of the urology department at Cochin hospital in Paris, invited to Europe Matin on Tuesday, estimated that they did not are not responsible for the misfortunes of the hospital.

“Nothing done to save this institution”

“The hospital is very damaged and no longer fulfills its mission […] It has deteriorated a lot in recent years “, assured the author of Hospital, what you have never been told published by Albin Michel. In the midst of the fifth wave of the coronavirus epidemic, he also called for not blaming the saturation of hospitals on unvaccinated people.

“I believe that in France there are quite a few unvaccinated people. It should be remembered that 90% of adults are vaccinated so mainly the French were responsible. So I believe that the disintegration of the hospital must be attributed to all our policies and all our successive rulers, right and left, who have done nothing to save this institution “, he ruled.

“The sidelining of our care mission”

A “lucid” diagnosis according to Michaël Peyromaure, who he says, is shared by many of his colleagues. “All the measures that have been taken in recent years for the hospital, and there have been some, have gone in the same direction. That is to say a very accountable and very rigid management of the power given to the administration, bringing caregivers into line and sidelining our care mission, “he said. A painful observation for those who experienced “the last good years of the hospital between 1990 and 2000”. “At the time the hospital was happy and the staff were happy to work there. And that has changed a lot,” said the head of the urology department of Cochin hospital.

As for the issue of closing beds for lack of caregivers, Michaël Peyromaure took the example of his department (urology) at Cochin hospital. “Currently, we still have 50% of operating theaters closed due to lack of OR nurses. And it is estimated that in recent months we have had to postpone or cancel 380 surgeries in our specialty alone. considerable “, finally asked the professor who said he was pessimistic for the months and years to come and called for urgent measures to” redress the bar “.