The chairmen 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 hospitals, which was still "200 million euros" in 2021, "should reach around 1.1 billion euros in 2024, increasing much more quickly than other public hospitals", assure these managers, including Anne Hidalgo (Paris), Christian Estrosi (Nice), Christophe Bechu (Angers), Martine Aubry (Lille)...
According to them, this deterioration "is not due to a management drift" but to "new exceptional charges" at a time when the establishments "were themselves weakened by the effects induced by the Covid crisis".
They warn of the "major" effects of this financial deterioration, particularly because major infrastructure renovation projects "are now at risk of being at best postponed by several years and at worst abandoned."
"The funding that our university hospitals would lack in the coming years would have an impact on the lives of our fellow citizens, the care of patients, and the economic and social balances of our territories that is out of all proportion to the economy involved," they warn.
This is why they are calling for "arbitration" from the Prime Minister so that, particularly within the framework of the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS), "the capacity for action" of the university hospitals "is preserved and that the investments necessary for their future cannot be called into question".
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