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Flu in France: A bill of over a billion



While the pandemic is over, time is on the accounts. Purchase of vaccines and masks, gyms, ad campaign ... France, she spent too much?

Taking rang. While the opposition roundly on the government, two parliamentary commissions of inquiry began their research on the management of the epidemic of influenza A (H1N1). The Social Chamber of the Court of Auditors has also just launched its own audit. Always stoic face of criticism and persuaded not failing, Roselyne Bachelot will be explained. The Director General of Health, Didier Houssin, would meanwhile be interviewed this week by senators but, for reasons of agenda, the meeting You have been postponed several days. This leaves more time to argue the Ministry of Health, held to centralize figures scattered in various administrative services. The mission is more complex than the exercise is unprecedented.

"It's an exercise that we always lose out," said Roselyne Bachelot

France has put in order of battle for a war against a virus that had hit the population and to lose several points GDP to the national economy. In the light of the balance sheet, how were they made disproportionately ? Influenza A has 302 victims in France ... much less a common seasonal flu. To sketch an initial assessment of influenza A, Le Journal du Dimanche has updated the figures available and had added. The bill, incomplete, already stands at over one billion euros. The National Insurance sickness is not known how this epidemic has generated a sick or additional medical requirements. Care hospitals in serious cases has not yet been quantified, nor will perhaps never so much the operation is complex, according to several experts. The payroll of medical and paramedical staff, who came to pitting chain, have not yet been established. "We started to pay interns, student nurses and pay transportation costs for students the end of December. The other staff will have to wait, perhaps for certain until June, "says one to the Ministry of Health. The rules of the administration are so complex that different departments are struggling to decide who should pay the bills. This "means debauchery", which already exceeds billion euros, a political justification. The government has decided to pull out the heavy artillery, favoring a massive vaccination campaign. The Elysee Palace, the Ministry of Health, Matignon and Bercy have always considered the health of the French was priceless. Leaders, traumatized by the repeated crises French health - contaminated blood, growth hormones, mad cow disease and, more recently, heat waves - did not intend to take any chances.

Only 7% of the population agreed to be vaccinated

"Today I am reproached to do too much, likes to repeat Roselyne Bachelot. But initially the same reproached me for not doing enough. It is an exercise that we always lose out. "Raymond Soubie, the social adviser of the President of the Republic, is not alien to the religion of the precautionary principle maximum. If differences are emerging within the government, they concerning the logistics of the crisis. Last June, Brice Hortefeux, Minister of the newly appointed Interior, wanted to have the upper hand on the steering all the vaccination centers. Jacobin organization that excluded physicians city of the chain shown its limitations: only 7% of the population agreed to be vaccinated. As far as the financial cost is the distrust shown by the French against their leaders who must worry about today. Anne-Laure
Barret and Marie-Christine Tabet - Le Journal du Dimanche

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