Dax Hospital. "There is an emergency," emphasizes the president of the hospital's medical commission.

According to Maude Andrieu, the national financial context of health requires rapid reforms

Maude Andrieu, President of the Medical Commission, served as interim president alongside Simon Beaudrap upon the departure of former director Stéphane Jacob. She is also overseeing the transition with the new management, in place since July ^1st , headed by David Trouchaud.

A few months after the governance crisis, what is the state of mind of the staff at Dax hospital?

I think the staff is, like in many hospitals in France, tired. What the staff has just experienced is a loss of meaning over the last few months, because we had no goals, no trajectory, no strategy, no light at the end of the tunnel.

So in that respect, the arrival of a director allows us to finally have all the players in place to launch the changes we will have to make, and we will have to make a lot of them. The difficulty we might have is that we have a lot of changes to make in a short period of time, because the national financial context of health does not allow us to say that we have five or ten years to do it. There is an urgency, we owe it to the caregivers who strive day after day to provide quality care, and we owe it to the population in our care.

What happened to the promises made by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) regarding the Ségur de la Santé funds?

I think what is clear is that we have a roadmap from the Regional Health Agency that we must follow on the financial side, and if we meet this roadmap, we have been promised that the Ségur credits will be released for the investment we plan to make. We must land on the real estate projects that we want to bring to fruition. So there is a collective effort to be carried out to see what the priorities are for the hospital center to be supported by the agency.

How can we carry out this collective reform work with the teams?

We need to make reforms that will fuel the teams' medical and healthcare projects. There are some in the surgical departments, in the oncology department; there are even more projects than two or three years ago. So that's very good, because we can't afford to stay put in a hospital, otherwise things will go badly. We're at a turning point that we're going to take as intelligently as possible because, once again, we have to do it.