Bobigny / Bondy / Sevran: the restructuring of the three public hospitals encouraged

Each report of the Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC) brings its share of reminders of the law and recommendations. This time, the magistrates looked at the management of the Paris – Seine-Saint-Denis university hospitals, namely Avicenne in Bobigny, René-Muret in Sevran and Jean-Verdier in Bondy. They are careful to specify that this study covers the period from 2015 to 2019, just before the onset of the health crisis.

This large structure employed in 2018 “4,582 full-time equivalents” and the total number of beds there was 1,097, “to which must be added 194 day hospital places”.

“The deficit of its main budget has widened, from 24.3 million euros in 2015 to 28.5 million euros in 2019, also notes the CRC. The establishment has not succeeded in reducing its costs on a lasting basis despite the drop in staff, mainly non-medical staff, which means that the use of temporary workers and overtime has to be increased. “

“Interns refuse the Jean-Verdier hospital because there is no public transport”

This university hospital group is the target of a vast restructuring project. It consists in particular of “concentrating the heaviest activities” in Bobigny, and in particular of transferring the maternity hospital in Bondy there. “The budget for the transfer of the women-children pole to the Avicenna hospital is estimated at more than 100 million euros with a delivery scheduled for 2025, indicates the Public Assistance of Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) on Tuesday. The project has progressed well and recently, AP-HP has chosen the three groups of companies and contractors. “

There remains the question of the future of the current Bondy hospital, called to become “the new Jean-Verdier”, focused on outpatient care. The plot initially considered for reconstruction has recently been discarded.

The CRC invites the actors to “accelerate”, especially since Jean-Verdier is experiencing “significant security problems”. In his response to the report, at the end of 2020, the director of the AP-HP Martin Hirsch specified in particular that “precautionary measures” had been taken, pending the reconstruction of the site.

“The hospital is isolated, in a residential area, there are access difficulties, explains the mayor of Bondy Stephen Hervé (DVD). We also know that interns refuse the site because there is no public transport. This project will not be carried out before 2024. In recent years, it has given rise to several expressions of hostility from both residents and staff.