Discouraging. The new Minister of Health, François Braun, judged during the handover ceremony with Brigitte Bourguignon that “our entire health system is out of breath”. Suddenly, not much choice, he promised to tackle “as an emergency doctor” (his basic job) the files that await him, including the hospital crisis. The former head of emergencies in Metz spoke of a “health system (…) capable of doing extraordinary things, as during the pandemic, but (which) lacks flexibility, visibility, is no longer understood by our fellow citizens, nor by our caregivers”. “Emergencies (…) are sick, the public hospital is not well, and our whole health system is out of breath,” added the man who has just submitted 41 proposals to the government, as part of a a flash mission on “unscheduled care”. The diagnosis is severe and gives him a tough roadmap. And the new minister added: “There is an urgent need to fight against inequalities in access to health, of which medical deserts are the most terrible emblem”, but also “for the hospital and for the caregivers , overwhelmed by the Covid crisis, of which we could not have anticipated all the consequences”. Former health referent of Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaign, François Braun “intends to carry out a renovation of our health system centered on the health needs of the French, as close as possible to the various territories of the Republic”, convinced that “the needs of health are not the same in East Moselle or in the Basque Country”. The new minister announced that he would receive, “from the next few days”, with his deputy minister Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, “the intermediary health bodies to start the great consultation of the stakeholders wanted by the President of the Republic”. “And we will travel to the field” to “keep in touch with those who are with the sick”, continued the minister, assuring that he “remains an emergency worker, with in (his) DNA the desire to qualify the problems and to act quickly to resolve them”.
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