Closure of beds in hospitals: Gabriel Attal announces the opening of a survey of establishments – franceinfo

“The figures will be communicated soon,” the government spokesman said Wednesday after the Council of Ministers.

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“We have launched a survey of all health establishments to objectify the situation and its exploitation is in progress”, announced Wednesday, October 27 Gabriel Attal, the spokesman of the government, at the end of the Council of Ministers. “The figures will be communicated shortly”, he added.

This statement echoes the study conducted by Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, Chairman of the Scientific Council on Covid-19. This flash survey reveals that around 20% of the beds are currently closed in the CHUs and CHRs in France due to lack of personnel. In a daily interview Release, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, admitted that“A certain number of units in hospitals are forced to close temporarily, or to reduce the wing, for lack of caregivers, especially for lack of being able to recruit them”.

According to Gabriel Attal, the lack of personnel is due to the actions of previous governments. “We do not catch up with thirty years in four years”, he stressed. “There is no hidden reserve of personnel, he continued. Our action makes a big difference in the long term, because we will have new staff, in particular thanks to measures such as the elimination of the numerus clausus. ”