2024-04-10 15:42:17
The temporary polyclinic, which will be operational in the heart of the Olympic village during the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) this summer and which will be managed by the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), had to be revised at the reduces some of the care services that it was initially supposed to provide.
“Due to a budget reduction very recently”certain offers in ophthalmology and dental care have thus been canceled or reduced, declared Philippe Le Van, chief doctor of the Games Organizing Committee (Cojop), Wednesday April 10 during a hearing by the working group on the preparation of JOPs at the National Assembly.
The polyclinic which was to provide free glasses, if necessary, will only concentrate “on eye exams and emergency management”, explained Mr. Le Van. Regarding dental care, where eight seats were planned, the polyclinic will ultimately only have four “to stay within budget”detailed Mr. Le Van. “But we are committed to providing mouthguards and we will provide them”he added.
The operating cost of the polyclinic was estimated at 3.8 million euros a year ago by the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly. An agreement, signed in 2023 by Cojop and the AP-HP, provides for the principle of compensation to the nearest euro by Paris 2024 for direct and indirect expenses incurred by the AP-HP and linked to the operating cost ( staff remuneration, cost of supplies, equipment, medicines).
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Lack of emergency doctors and emergency equipment
Mr. Le Van also highlighted a “urgent and recurring problem”that of the availability of emergency doctors. “We have managed to allow general practitioners to look after the general public on the sites. But, if on the Olympic Games part, we are almost in balance” on the number of emergency doctors needed, “we are in difficulty for the Paralympic Games period”.
In an interview with ParisianMonday April 8, the Minister for Health, Frédéric Valletoux explained that“behind the emergencies, 400 volunteer emergency doctors were recruited by the JOP organizing committee at the competition sites to take care of spectators’ discomfort, injuries, etc.”.
Mr. Le Van also highlighted a “lack of emergency materials”citing in particular respirators, or resuscitation devices, “for which our service providers [l’Agence générale des équipements et produits de santé, chargée des achats de l’AP-HP] cannot respond due to the forty events over nineteen days”.
“We are trying to unfreeze the strategic stock of the State. We have tacit agreement from the Ministry of Health, but for the moment no official yes to be sure of having these materials”, said Mr. Le Van.
Emphasizing that it is« barely 10% of what is currently stored” by the State, he estimate that « [s’ils] no read off[aient] not at the time of the Games, that would be a blocking point”.
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