The presidents of France's 32 university hospitals alert Michel Barnier about the “worrying financial situation” of hospitals

The cumulative budget deficit of university hospitals is expected to reach around 1.1 billion euros in 2024.

The presidents of the supervisory boards of the 32 university hospital centers (CHU) wrote, Friday, November 29, to Prime Minister Michel Barnier 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 the CHUs, which was still “200 million euros” in 2021, “should 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 Bechu (Angers), Martine Aubry (Lille)…

According to them, this degradation “is not due to management drift” but to “new exceptional charges” at the time when the establishments “were themselves weakened by the effects induced by the Covid crisis”.

They warn of the effects “major” of this financial deterioration. This is why they call for “arbitration” of the Prime Minister so that, particularly within the framework of the Social Security financing bill, “capacity for action” des CHU “is preserved and that the investments necessary for their future cannot be called into question”.