The health sector is in the midst of a crisis. After the doctors, the FO-Santé union launched an “unlimited” strike notice at the hospital from this Tuesday, January 10.
The nursing staff of public hospitals will join the protest movement of their liberal doctor colleagues. The FO-Santé union, which came second in the union elections, has filed a strike notice which will be effective on Tuesday January 10, 2023 from midnight. The union justifies this “unlimited” strike, denouncing “unacceptable working conditions suffered by all public servants, but also and above all to obtain a radical change in health policy”.
Shaken for years, the French health sector is particularly under pressure this winter in the face of the triple epidemic of influenza, Covid-19 and bronchiolitis which affects France. Among the demands of the hospital union, the recruitment of nearly “200,000 agents in the health, social and medico-social sectors”. the communicated of FO-Santé reports hospital workers “overwhelmed” and “exhausted”. A “dramatic” situation which the government will quickly have to remedy to avoid an immobilization of the health system.
Announcements by Emmanuel Macron
On the move this Friday morning at the South Francilien Hospital Center in Corbeil-Essonne, the President of the Republic will present his wishes to caregivers. According to European 1. Emmanuel Macron should not be satisfied with a speech of support but also unveil “important” measures to support the field of health. The Head of State could reveal part of the health plan planned by François Braun, Minister of Health and Solidarity.
On October 23, 2022, the minister had already announced an envelope of 150 million euros for “hospital services under tension”, in particular in pediatrics, a service then faced with the surge in cases of bronchiolitis. A year earlier, after the Ségur de la santé, the government had announced an investment of 19 billion euros mobilized over several years in the hospital medical sector but also medico-social, whether in the public or private domain.