Didier Raoult accuses the boss of Marseille hospitals of being there “to clean up” – franceinfo

69 years old, Didier Raoult, who To reached the age of compulsory cessation of activity as a university professor, reacted Monday August 23 to the possible non-renewal of his contract. Francois Cremieux, thehe new Director General of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM), is here “to clean and I am one of the objects he would like to clean “, he accuses in an interview with CNews.

The very controversial director of the IHU Méditerranée Infection will be from August 31 officially retired as a university professor-hospital practitioner and is expected to leave the structure he founded in 2011. “I could have been recruited as a contractual hospital practitioner for another two years, it would bring in more than two million euros per year to the Public Assistance, because of my scientific activity which generates money”, pleads the one who has long defended hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The professor thus sent the management of the AP-HM a request for combined employment and retirement.

In this interview, Didier Raoult accuses François Crémieux of wanting to push him towards the exit: “He’s Hirsch’s great friend [le directeur de l’Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris] and as I said what I thought of the management of Paris, which has been absolutely appalling, he is very angry with me. “ François Crémieux, who was previously deputy of the director of public hospitals in Paris, took up his post as Director General of the AP-HM in July and has entrusted to World want to start the process of recruiting a successor to Professor Raoult.

The decision on its possible extension will be taken by the board of directors of the foundation which oversees the IHU in which “the Assistance representative public has only one voice “ out of 18, underlined Didier Raoult. But the Professor has seen his relations with a number of Marseille doctors and researchers deteriorate with the Covid-19 epidemic and his controversial positions. Her The request for an extension therefore does not appear to be unanimous within the IHU itself.