Two years after the Orpea scandal, timid progress in Parisian municipal nursing houses | EUROtoday

On February 9, 2022, following the Orpea affair, the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, introduced an inspection of the municipality's institutions and an audit entrusted to State Councilor Jean-Marie Delarue, “so that such shocking facts can never happen again”. Two years later, “nothing has been put in place, except communication”deplores Sabrina Deliry, co-founder of the affiliation L'Observatoire du grand age, arrange in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic to protest towards the isolation of seniors.

Véronique Levieux, assistant in control of seniors, doesn’t agree. The Delarue report, submitted in February 2023, castigated the” indifference “ in direction of nursing house residents and known as for them to be higher taken under consideration and to higher respect their rights and dignity. A piece that the City has undertaken, by creating boards for dialogue between administration, caregivers and households, and a “information collection unit”meant to higher establish abuse.

For Sabrina Deliry, one other downside comes from “supervision concerns” and a “overabundance of norms and rules”which forces executives to multiply reviews and reviews to the detriment of their presence within the area. “We ask a lot of them”replies M^me Levieux, who greets the” commitment “ employees and administration. “We cannot both ask for more inspections and blame them for making too many reports”she provides.

Retain employees

M^me Levieux additionally highlights a price range devoted to the nursing houses of the social motion heart of the City of Paris (CASVP), up 5.14% in 2024, and the creation of thirty-eight positions, whereas recognizing the difficulties of recruitment, notably of medical doctors. “We have launched a discussion on career development and training”in an effort to higher retain nursing house employees, she assures.

The deputy mayor mentions that 57% of the 7,800 residents of CASVP nursing houses are eligible for social help, and that she refuses to think about a rise in costs, which might quantity to “put them out”. She subsequently calls on the federal government to lastly make investments the promised sources.