While the hospital is experiencing a particularly tense period, the revaluation of night guards will be made permanent, said this Saturday August 19 on France Inter the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, specifying that he will make the detailed announcement in “a few weeks” at the latest.
“I will be led in a few days, a few weeks at most, to announce in particular the continuation of measures for the night […]for the additional remuneration of the constraints imposed on staff who have to work at night”, declared Aurélien Rousseau. “It is more and more difficult to recruit people who accept this extremely strong constraint”, he justified.
“François Braun (Editor’s note: his predecessor) had launched a major project, I will announce the sustainability of these measures that the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister have decided”, he added. At the beginning of the summer of 2022, François Braun, just appointed to the ministry, had upgraded the guards by 50%, as part of temporary measures which have been regularly renewed since.
Heat wave: “The hospital will cope”
Asked about the possible increase in the participation of patients in the payment of drugs, Aurélien Rousseau recalled that the discussions concerning the health budget were “in progress” and that the government was looking at “all the scenarios” before the presentation of the bill. financing of social security, in September.
“What is my major concern is that if we were to move forward on these subjects, we would not penalize the people who are the sickest, especially those with long-term conditions,” he said. Friday on France infoAurélien Rousseau had estimated that if the situation is “tense” in the emergency room, it is not “more serious” than in 2022. “The hospital has coped, the hospital will cope, […] the organization of the health system is extremely robust and will be robust in the face of this episode of heat”, declared the Minister of Health, as an episode of heat wave is expected in the coming days.
Emergency physician alert
Emergency workers are warning about an emergency crisis that they consider “worse” than in 2022. “We have never experienced such a scale of emergency structure closures,” Agnès Ricard told AFP. -Hibon, spokesperson for the French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU).
Very present in recent days in the media, the main representatives of emergency physicians, from Amuf (Association of emergency physicians of France) to SUdf (Samu-Urgences de France), have also judged the situation “more serious than the summer last”. It experiences, according to the president of SUdf Marc Noizet, “all the departments”, from small to large services, to “extremely touristic areas”.
Shortage of emergency physicians, temporary workers, paramedics, downstream beds… “Alerts are coming from everywhere”, from Brittany to the Atlantic coast, laments Dr Ricard-Hibon. Head of the Val-d’Oise Samu, she notably “learned on Tuesday of the night closure, for two weeks, of a service in Ile-de-France”.