François Braun, new Minister of Health after the reshuffle of this Monday, does not go there by four paths. He felt that “our whole health system is out of breath”. After having praised Brigitte Bourguignon for her “benevolent listening” and her “willingness to tackle the problems head-on”, the former head of emergencies in Metz mentioned, during the transfer of power to the ministry, a “system of health (…) capable of doing extraordinary things, as during the pandemic, but (which) lacks flexibility, visibility, is no longer understood by our fellow citizens or 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”. And to hammer home that “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 anticipate all the consequences”.
“Keep in touch with those who are with the sick”
The new minister announced that he would receive, “from the next few days”, with his deputy minister Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, “the intermediate 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 François Braun, assuring that he “remains an emergency doctor, with in (his) DNA the desire to qualify the problems and to ‘act quickly to resolve them’.
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