If the astronomical price of hospitals can be the right excuse to dodge a visit to the granny operated by the hip, this will soon be the case. Before the deputies this Wednesday, the Minister of Health promised that he would attack this file. At the next conference of CHU general directors, Yannick Neuder will ask for a gesture in favor of relatives visiting a hospitalized parent.
But beware, there is no question of making parking lots for everyone. What Yannick Neuder hopes to scratch is that “under certain conditions, on long diseases, there is a care of this need to have relatives at the bedside of patients,” he said. “This is part of the support and humanity that we must put in our public policies,” he said.
“Anger rumbles”
The Minister of Health answered a question from the PS deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle Stéphane Hablot on the “scandal of paid parking lots in hospitals”. In Nancy but also “in Saint-Etienne, Brest, Cambrai, Le Mans, Bordeaux, Le Havre, anger rumbles,” he said. “Is it normal” that a young woman “who travels 200 kilometers a day to see her mother” at Nancy hospital in palliative care “pays 300 euros per month in parking? “He asked.
On the contrary, in Lille, if the parking lots of the hospital center are actually paying, the prices have been adapted according to the nature of the visit. As a visitor or for a consultation, it will cost you 1 euro for an hour at 5 euros for four hours. On the other hand, for a care of more than four hours or hospitalization, a price at 3 euros the day is offered. Same thing for recurring visits to a patient: the prices are 3 euros per day or 5 euros per week beyond 15 days.
Hospital parking concessions to private operators have multiplied for more than a decade while hospitals, under strong financial constraint, seek to concentrate their investments in their care activities.
(Tagstotranslate) News (T) Société