By mid-November some 268 hospital emergency wards were classed as being on strike. It feels a far cry from the year 2000 when a World Health Organisation comparison of 191 different countries, ranked France's health system as the best in the world. "Public hospitals are collapsing," read a joint statement in Le Monde newspaper by 70 public health chiefs from Paris hospitals who feared the crisis was reaching an "irreversible breaking point". Here she is expected to pledge more spending on France's health service and a review of salaries. But it may not be enough to quell the revolt, let alone restore the falling reputation of France's health service.

Source: The Local November 14, 2019 09:55 UTC