Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) is forecasting a deficit of more than 200 million euros in 2022 for the third consecutive year, particularly due to inflation and Covid, according to an internal forecast and the budget discussed on Wednesday. AFP:
Expected deficit of 228 million euros
Nicolas Revel could have hoped for a better gift. The new director-general of Paris hospitals, appointed by the Council of Ministers on Monday, reviewed the institution’s new budget projections on Tuesday before the founding medical commission, a sort of parliament of doctors from the AP-HP. The numbers are not good. this year the deficit will amount to 228 million euros, compared to 184 million expected in December. clearly”decline“Mainly due to inflation driving up the prices of subcontractors and others”external services“. The addition is already valued at €58 million at the end of May, which is enough to underline.”the need for financial supportby the Ministry of Social Security and Health. AP-HP also suffers from “the beginning of the year was very marked by Covid“, which again led to”mass deprogramming“in the first quarter as well as”significant use of temporary work and overtime70 million in just three months.
Loss of business and additional expenses covered in advance “guarantee of fundinghospitals, which the government has just extended until the end of the year. To limit losses this year.short-term action planswere operated for several months without reduction. The opposite, “1,100 nurses will be recruited this summer and the effort will be intensified in the second semesterAP-HP management told AFP.
Although “a particularly tense situation“This adjusted budget”maintains an ambitious recruitment effort“, but also the planned investments in the amount of more than 550 million euros this year, added the same source. But after record deficits in 2020 (-246 million) and 2021 (-230 million), the debt of Paris hospitals will continue to expand and at the end of the year should exceed 3.4 billion euros, against 25 billion euros. Late 2019, just before the Covid-19 health crisis.
Source: Le Figaro
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