Emmanuel Macron went to Cherbourg hospital in Normandy on Tuesday to meet his staff. Faced with the congestion of emergency services, or even their partial closure, the French president wants to find quick solutions before engaging in longer consultations to respond to the hospital crisis.
Caregivers who want to rediscover the meaning of their profession, understaffing on all floors, training to rethink: in three quarters of an hour of exchanges, Emmanuel Macron has an edifying overview of the challenges to be met.
In the corridors of the CHU, the French president is quickly challenged by several members of staff wishing to “ sound the alarm about the situation at the hospital. ” Before there were nurse trainers at the nursing school, now there are none. We are the ones who train the nurses, but we don’t have time! We don’t even have time to take care of the patients “says an employee of the Cherbourg hospital.
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But despite the urgency to respond to these already known findings, the president wants to take his time to find solutions and unveils the launch of local consultations that will last several months, reports Anthony Latier from the political service of RFI.
” We need to change the method collectively, that is to say, to restore freedom, flexibility, the ability to innovate in the field »explains Emmanuel Macron. “ It is, in fact, sometimes money, investments in furniture, but it is an enormous simplification and allows them, at the level of the territory, to recruit and organize themselves in the most appropriate way. »
There is a problem of the relationship to meaning, of the organization of their work, of freedom, of the place given to the hospital in the capacity to build solutions in the field. This is what we need to change.
Emmanuel Macron visiting Cherbourg
The French president is also announcing a one-month mission to diagnose the crisis in emergency services at the hospital and to propose ways to respond to it, the first stage of a plan to be rolled out at the level of “ 1,200 living areas ” French. Professor François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences de France, responsible for finding quick solutions to the many problems, will have to submit his conclusions “No later than July 1 to the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon. Based on this, decisions will be made. to help mobilize more doctors, regain attractiveness in certain sectors (…). This from the end of the summer will be declined in each territory “.
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(and with AFP)