The issues within the French well being sector, which is scuffling with overcrowded hospitals and a scarcity of workers in rural areas, may deepen within the coming years, President Emmanuel Macron mentioned in a New Year tackle to well being staff.
“We’re facing a situation with could get worse regarding medical demographics”, Macron mentioned, pointing at France’s ageing inhabitants which additionally means a excessive variety of medical doctors and nurses are presently retiring, many with out being changed by equally expert staff.
France’s well being sector has been struggling lately, with the COVID-19 pandemic – when many medical staff selected to give up the occupation – including to already stretched sources in hospitals and medical practices.
Lining out his authorities’s priorities for the sector, Macron mentioned that paying more cash alone was not ample to make the occupation extra enticing, including that his authorities would work in direction of stepping up recruitment of medical workers and growing cooperation between actors contained in the well being system.
