the Organizing Committee of the Games and the AP-HP have concluded an agreement for the creation of a health center

For the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP), a temporary health center – or polyclinic according to the official term – will be operational in the heart of the Olympic Village, which will accommodate more than 15,000 people (athletes and members of the delegations), in order to to take care of emergencies and the first call for a doctor. It will be up to the AP-HP to create and manage this center, the operation and financing of which will be governed by an agreement concluded with the JOP Organizing Committee (Cojop). This has just been signed, announced the Minister for Sports and the JOP, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, on Tuesday March 21, during the examination by the National Assembly of the bill relating to the JOP and various other provisions.

This agreement provides in particular that Paris 2024 will reimburse to the nearest euro the direct and indirect expenses incurred by the AP-HP and related to the cost of operation (remuneration of staff, cost of supplies, equipment, medication).

The AP-HP will second an administrative director, a medical director, a health manager, as well as about fifteen referents per discipline exercised.

At the peak of activity, the AP-HP estimates at just under 200 professionals the necessary forces, all specialties and trades combined, including 35 doctors, around fifteen nurses and nurses, 28 physiotherapists.

It will not only be AP-HP staff, even if the latter will be responsible. And they will all be volunteers, mainly French (about 200), but also international.

AP-HP reimbursed “30 days after the invoices are issued”

The running cost is estimated “to date at 3.8 million euros”according to the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, which specifies that the agreement does not relate to the compensation, for the AP-HP, of the possible care of athletes and supervisors within hospitals.

These costs will be covered by private insurance, contracted by Paris 2024, up to at least 200,000 euros, and it is the State which will bear the expenses exceeding the amount of this cover.

Reimbursements to the AP-HP by the Organizing Committee of the Games will be made “30 days after the issue of the invoices. This commitment is made black on white in the agreement.Amélie Oudéa-Castéra said on Tuesday.

In view of the health needs during the previous Olympic Games, the AP-HP estimates that around 700 consultations per day should be carried out.

In the event of heavier care to be operated, three referral hospitals of the AP-HP will take over: for the athletes, Bichat, for the media, Avicenne, for the delegations, the European hospital Georges-Pompidou.