“Tackling the problem of emergencies through the territories is like looking through a keyhole when there is no longer a door!” – Liberation

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–For the emergency doctor and vice-president of the Samu Emergencies of France Jean-François Cibien, the flash mission launched by the executive cannot provide a credible response to the current emergency crisis.–

A cop-out. For the president of Action practitioners hospital (APH) and emergency physician, Jean-François Cibien, the announcement Tuesday, May 31 by Emmanuel Macron of the launch of a one-month mission on the reality of the hospital emergency crisis, territory by territory, is only a means for the executive to gain time. Faced with the impending «Tsunami sanitaire» the vice-president of Samu urgences de France advocates an in-depth reform of the “straitjacket” which is suffocating the health system.

How did you react to the announcement of the launch of a flash mission on the issue of hospital emergencies?

We have the impression that the President is playing for time, but we are not in the same time zones. We have already waited a very long time for the appointment of the government when there was a health emergency with rampant insecurity. A week after the appointment of the minister, we are told that there will be meetings. We are still waiting to be called. We will once again politely explain the solutions. But this method is unbearable. Thierry Godeau, the president of the Conference of Presidents of Establishment Medical Commissions (PCME), had explained everything to Olivier Véran at the start of Ségur, two years ago! The analysis is done. Now we have to go to…

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