international with me becky aaron a 1st to france where the pandemic has put severe pressure on the country's already strained health care system calls for an overhaul have now been met with a government promise to initiate talks with hospitals to come up with a plan for reform it comes on the back of heavy criticism of the government's failure to address the health crisis during the pandemic artie's schaller dubin ski reports from paris this is a 2 month review that's being announced by the french prime minister will look through the whole of france's health care system. the health care system has public hospitals with debts of around. 1000000000 euros and for a long time this is a system that is being creaking we saw way before the pandemic way before hospital services were completely stretched that medical workers were already out on the streets protesting about issues around their working conditions and salaries some medics telling me that it just wasn't safe for patients to go to hospital so this was even before 900 to give you a sense of how much of a pressure there has been on hospital