Jérôme Salomon, Director General of Health – Jacques Witt / SIPA
The Deputy Director General of Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) François Crémieux will be appointed Director General of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille, the third university hospital center (CHU) in France, said the former mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola .
This appointment was “officially announced this morning by the Prime Minister,” said this Sunday on Twitter the elected ecologist who chairs the Supervisory Board of the AP-HM and defended the candidacy of François Crémieux among six applicants.
Outcry
François Crémieux, whose appointment will be formalized in the Council of Ministers, had also received the support of the president of the Regional Council LR Renaud Muselier and of the president LR of the department and the metropolis Martine Vassal. He will replace the current director general of the AP-HM Jean-Olivier Arnaud who is retiring.
The hypothesis of a parachuting in Marseille of the current Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, implicated in a parliamentary report for not having renewed the stocks of masks in 2018 and modified a posteriori the conclusions of a report experts in favor of a higher stock, had provoked an outcry in the Marseille city.
With four hospitals and 3,400 beds, the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) is the third CHU in France. It is also the largest employer in the region, with more than 12,000 employees and nearly 2,000 doctors.