The regional audit office published a report on the Bastia hospital on Thursday, August 29. The document covers six years of operation and dissects, among other things, governance, healthcare provision, emergency room reception, and also finances.
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200 million euros of cumulative deficit over 6 years: this is the finding of the report just published by the regional audit office on the Bastia hospital.
In 2022 alone, the annual deficit is 21.2 million euros. For the director of the establishment, the deficit is structural and insularity would be one of the causes.
“It is the obligation to have services on site, to allow access to care for the entire population. But services that do not necessarily have enough population to be optimized in terms of capacity and load balance.“, explains Christophe Arnould, director of the Bastia Hospital Center.”And this applies to island appeal specialties and we assume this public service mission to allow this access to the population but this makes us very largely in deficit.“.
Absenteeism, irregularities, legal working hours not respected. Bastia hospital is also facing recruitment problems, with the use of many non-permanent staff.
According to the report, in 6 years, the number of medical staff has increased by 18%, of which 35% are non-permanent. Another point of the report: the difficulties of the emergency service, with an increasingly sustained activity: +10.2%, but a glaring lack of doctors, especially in the summer.
“We have fewer people, fewer doctors, because some are taking leave. In the hospital departments, some are reducing their capacity to compensate for the lack of doctors. We have a short-stay unit that was closed all summer, due to a lack of doctors.“regrets Florent Lothe, emergency doctor.
To reduce its deficit, the hospital should finalize a realistic recovery plan without delay. Building a new hospital could be a way to attract and retain more practitioners.
