The presidents of the supervisory boards of the 32 university hospitals wrote to Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Friday to alert him to “the worrying financial situation” of these hospital establishments and ask him to ” preserve “ their capacity for action.
The cumulative deficit of university hospital centers, which was still “200 million euros” in 2021, “expected to reach around 1.1 billion euros in 2024, growing much faster than other public hospitals”, assure these managers, including Anne Hidalgo (Paris), Christian Estrosi (Nice), Christophe Béchu (Angers), Martine Aubry (Lille)…
According to them this degradation “is not due to management drift” but to “new exceptional charges” at the time when establishments “were themselves weakened by the effects induced by the Covid crisis”.
Risk of delay or abandonment of renovation projects
They warn of the effects “majors” of this financial deterioration, in particular because renovation projects for large infrastructures “are now at risk of being at best delayed by several years and at worst abandoned.”
“The funding that would be lacking for our university hospitals in the coming years would have an impact on the lives of our fellow citizens, the care of patients, the economic and social balance of our territories out of all proportion to the economy involved”, they warn.
This is why they call for “arbitration” of the Prime Minister so that, particularly within the framework of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), “capacity for action” des CHU “is preserved and that the investments necessary for their future cannot be called into question”.
