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Hospitals in France slowly catch up from Covid but disparities remain

The Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien Hospital in Corbeil-Essonnes, France. © Ludovic Marin/AP

Four years after the start of the first Covid lockdown in France, hospitalisations have mostly returned to their pre-pandemic levels, though not in all areas of the country, and wait times for doctors have gotten longer.

The French hospital federation (FHF) says that hospital activity in 2023 “globally came back to the level observed in 2019,” but some disparities indicate that patients have not fully caught up on their healthcare since the pandemic.

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