In the midst of an emergency crisis and a few days before the legislative elections, hospital staff mobilized little on Tuesday to demand salary and staff increases in around fifty cities.
For this first day of action of the second Macron five-year term, nine unions and groups of caregivers organized rallies in at least fifty cities. But the mobilization did not fill up. In Paris, between 200 and 300 demonstrators gathered in front of the Ministry of Health at the start of the afternoon, including Corinne Panot, nursing assistant who came to remind us that “ beyond salary increases, it is especially human resources that we need “.
There were about as many of them in Toulouse, where Hélène Isus, a nurse at the CHU, explained that she wanted “ TO DO [son] work properly, not having to choose between patients “. Same crowds in Grenoble and Nantes, where child psychiatry nurse Ronan Tréguer was exasperated: “ It’s been a mess for years and we’re tired of it. Our working conditions are deplorable and patients suffer “. In Bordeaux, among the few hundred gathered in front of the CHU at midday, Lise, an operating theater nurse, said she was tired of having to always do more with less time and staff “.
In Marseille, the unions and collectives of caregivers expressed their anger at the Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM):
They should understand that when we say we’re fed up and need more staff, it’s not because we’re lazy and want to twiddle our thumbs. It’s because we know our job and we want to do it. We are health professionals. And if we say that we are not enough, it is that we are not enough.
Mobilization for the hospital in Marseille
Unions want negotiations
Emergency services are particularly in turmoil: for lack of caregivers, at least 120 services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count at the end of May from the Samu-Urgences de France association.
By the end of June, the president of Samu-Urgences de France François Braun must submit the conclusions of a mission to the head of state, who promised in an interview with the regional press on Friday “ emergency decisions from July “. The objective “ is to bring up all the good answers that can be put in place, starting this summer “, said Tuesday on France Bleu the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne.
The method does not convince Laurent Berger, the general secretary of the CFDT, the first French trade union: he judges in a forum in Liberation that “ the time for investigations is over » and claims « urgent negotiations on the organization of work “to get a hospital back on its feet” on the verge of knockout “. “ We risk being in a very, very problematic situation this summer […] I’m afraid there are dramas “, alerted on RTL the head of emergencies at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny, Frédéric Adnet.
Expected at the turn, François Braun assured last week that he did not intend to produce “ yet another report ” but good “ write the prescription “expected by the hospital, adding to have” already some leads “.
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(With AFP)