On strike from June 3: the Mégival clinic will completely stop its activities in Dieppe

“Private hospitals in danger. Stoppage of activity from June 3.” As soon as they arrive in the entrance hall of the Mégival clinic in Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie, at the entrance to Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), patients of the medical establishment are notified. In one month, June 3, 2024, like many other French private clinicss, she will stop the consultationsTHE interventions and other medical appointments for an indefinite period.

Only treatment for vital emergencies will be provided. “We have already asked our practitioners not to schedule anything after June 3,” says Laurent Chiarel, director of the Mégival clinic.

“We are in the process of asphyxiating ourselves”

There reason for such a movement ? “We are in the process of asphyxiating ourselves,” he explains. This private clinic like its counterparts in France have just been taken aback, when “through the press”, they learned a few weeks ago that the Ministry of Health, “without consultation”, decided to increase of only 0.3% in the price list at 1^er March 2024 of private establishments compared to an increase of 4.3% in those of the public hospital.

“However, 90% of the financial resources of private hospitalization are determined by prices set by the State,” underlines the director, leaving little room for maneuver for his establishment: “It is the death of private hospitalization! » he said.

“For more than a year, and after the shock already caused by the health crisis, the difficulties have only increased,” insists Laurent Chiarel. THE deleterious impacts of inflationn on the financial balance of health establishments have not been compensated to match the challenges, leading the sector into an inextricable vicious circle: the more private clinics and hospitals provide care, the more they work at a loss ! »

Negotiations in progress

He, who has been practicing for 30 years, protests: “Such a difference in treatment between the private and the public is unheard of! » Especially since he insists that in France today, 40% of private clinics are in deficit. And the Mégival clinic, which belongs to the Vivalto santé group, is no exception: “Our staff is worried. Here we have around 40 independent practitioners working and 150 employees. »

He also recalls that this measure will also weaken the public hospital which, particularly in more rural areas, relies heavily on partnerships with private clinics to cover their sector. In Dieppe, for example, the Mégival clinic opened its Care Access service to compensate for the lack of general practitioners and thus avoid the transfer of patients to the emergency room at the Dieppe hospital.

Negotiations in progress

In a mail addressed to deputy Sébastien Jumel to ask for his support, Laurent Chiarel points out that this service welcomes more than 20,000 patients per year, but that it is “still not funded”.

Negotiations have been opened at the national level between the private hospitalization federation and the Ministry of Health. If they are not successful, the clinic will cease its activity as announced on June 3. Patients should know more according to the director by the end of the first half of May.

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