Question 12593 — health establishments

Summary

Ms. Sylvie Ferrer questions the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities about the lack of control over companies providing movable services to local authorities, establishments and public companies. Indeed, the latter are obliged, under the public procurement code, to use a call for tenders for the purchase of furniture. This very often gives gives rise to abuses by suppliers, who charge prices much higher than those in the private sector, strongly affecting already under-resourced communities. Public hospitals are particularly affected by these practices. They are already facing massive budget cuts affecting the health system, an essential public service already in serious decline, with four billion euros in cuts. additional budgetary measures decided by the Government for 2026 in the health sector. As a reminder, the public hospital sector is experiencing a worrying crisis, emergency rooms are in an alarming situation of saturation, hospitals are understaffed, working conditions are appalling and hospital beds are in constant shortage with a drop of 10.5% in ten years. This is a particularly situation worrying linked to the absence of financial resources in the health sector, a direct consequence of the successive austerity budgets imposed by the Government. Therefore, the excess price of furniture constitutes a significant additional cost in the interest of private companies for hospitals already in serious financial deterioration. In the constituency of the MP, the Bagnères-de-Bigorre hospital center was affected by these massive overbillings. For example, an office chair sold for 500 euros to an individual was billed nearly 1,000 euros to one of these establishments. The price of the furniture is two to three times the price charged to an individual. It is once again public money that benefits the private sector without any regulation being made to avoid these practices. It is therefore extremely worrying that a significant part of public money is spent on essential materials whose cost is artificially increased by private companies in the public sector. The worrying situation in hospitals requires urgent action to put an end to these intolerable practices. She therefore wishes to know the measures that the Government intends to put in place to ensure control of suppliers participating in public procurement in order to prevent abuse and price drift by candidate companies.

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