The director general of the large Gauthier Saelens hospital deplores it: “We see our margins melt every year a little more since 2021. “In Belgium, not a hospital escapes this phenomenon, which is even widespread in Europe: with the Covid then the Ukraine War, the inflation of costs and wages increased faster than state subsidies and medical fees.
Structural deficit
“In the end, our financial situation has continued to deteriorate. And the 900 million euros in health savings announced by the Arizona government will only complicate things“, He analyzes.
It is therefore a little for him as for all his colleagues the quadrature of the circle, against the backdrop of the nursing care. Without exceptional means, the current result will continue to be reduced. In other words, the sector goes into the wall: “We suffer from a structural underfunding. “And if the GHDC catches up this year the losses of activity of 2024 outside the emergency where its relocation penalizes it, this will not change the course of the trajectory, relentless.”We must give us the means to fulfill our public service mission“, pleads Gauthier Saelens.
In Humani too
If the intermunicipal humani who manages the CHU Marie Curie and Vesale took advantage of an increase in activity last year, the weight of the contributions to empower pensions of its public staff draws the deficit down: we are nearly 20 million in 2025, a figure which will continue to climb until 2030 to reach 29.8 million, according to estimates, this before going back down.
In the meantime, the associated municipalities will have to take this cost at their expense, unless a radical change in political CAP which is not in the Arizona agenda.
