Question 11011 — health establishments

Summary

Mr. Raphaël Arnault alerts the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Persons with Disabilities to the announcement of the closure of the operating surgery department of the Apt country hospital center. The regional health agency and the Apt country hospital center have announced the complete closure of the operating surgery department by December 31, 2025. Within a few weeks, it will therefore be a living area of ​​more than 30,000 residents who will find themselves without an operating surgery service. This decision was taken without any consultation: neither with unions, nor with local elected officials and even less with users. The reasons given are usual: lack of profitability and deficit, in line with health marketization policies. However, the surgery department would have recorded an annual increase in revenue of 400,000 euros. He is also question of the audit carried out in January 2025, which local elected officials were unable to consult. The opacity of this procedure leaves doubt as to the real reason for the closure of this service. The department of Vaucluse is already a disaster-stricken department in the field of health: the Avignon operating theater is overloaded and has experienced several recent crises, 4 CMPEAs have closed throughout the department, 42 psychiatric beds closed to Carpentras and the list goes on. As always, access to care is sacrificed in the smallest local units, which overloads the services of the largest hospitals by forcing patients to travel hours to be treated. He would like to know what she intends to do regarding the surgical department of Apt hospital and the access of local elected officials to the audit carried out in January 2025.

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