Question 27712 — health

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Ms. Muriel Ressiguier alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the means implemented to deal with the health crisis and the pandemic situation that the world is facing today. After consulting the scientific council, the Government has taken the necessary measures to try to put an end to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. A significant part of the population is still exposed to the virus, i.e. for professional reasons because they ensure the proper functioning of the country, or because their company has made the decision to continue its activity. The most vulnerable, such as the homeless, migrants or incarcerated people, are also particularly exposed. Certain citizens must continue their professional activity, particularly in the fields of food, transport, administration, health, waste collection or security. Due to their contact with the population, they are more exposed to the viral risk. They do not all currently have what they need to protect themselves due to the lack of available materials. Health personnel are even more exposed: staff of hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, liberal professions doctors and nurses, nursing assistants, care assistants, firefighters, ambulance drivers... It is therefore vital that all the equipment necessary for their protection is made available to them to help contain the pandemic. Concerning the homeless (900,000 people in France), migrants, or prisoners (71,000 detainees), their situation is extremely worrying and specific solutions must be put in place without delay in view of the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Moreover, everything must be implemented to ensure the food needs of the most deprived. Accommodation solutions must be put in place urgently for homeless people and it is also necessary to review the living conditions in the CRAs whose promiscuity constitutes a danger. Most of those detained have a home and could be confined there, the others must be rehoused. The Government can choose to requisition vacant housing, hotels and provide sufficient number of gymnasiums to ensure the necessary sanitary conditions. The Government has decided to extend the validity of residence permits by six months and that is a good thing, but the detention centers must be closed. In prisons, given the prison overcrowding, it is urgent that individual confinement is now the ruler. Furthermore, alternative solutions to confinement such as placement under electronic surveillance (PSE) or house arrest could be considered. It is also necessary that systems to ensure the protection of prison staff and prisoners are put in place. Over the past fifteen years, nearly 69,000 beds have been eliminated in hospitals, including 4,200 in 2018. Social movements for the defense of a quality health system have followed one another. But health policy has not changed since. Today, healthcare workers are suffering from a lack of resources to deal with the health crisis. It is time to review France's public health policy. She asks him when will sufficient means of protection be put in place for all French people who are particularly exposed and in the obligation to continue their work. Finally, following this unprecedented health crisis and in order to be able to act calmly and effectively in the future if necessary, it would like to know whether it plans to relocate or even nationalize certain companies in the health sector and to review French public health policy.

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