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While testimonies are pouring in on sexual violence in hospitals, the AP-HP assures in a press release that it is taking stock of these facts, which it considers “intolerable” in its establishments.
In a press release dated April 16, the AP-HP speaks out against the beginnings of a #Metoo hospital which currently seems to be taking hold.
“Violence between professionals is not tolerable”
Without naming the people incriminated in the latest testimonies, public assistance assures this through its director Nicolas Revel, and professors Rémi Salomon and Bruno Riou:
“Whether these are acts of verbal violencephysical or moral, sexual and sexist behavior, moral harassment or discrimination, violence between professionals is not tolerable within the AP-HP.“
A speech which comes a week after Karine Lacombe, head of the hospital infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, accused emergency physician Patrick Pelloux of sexual harassment through the press. Which the doctor forcefully refutes.
279 reports collected in 2 years by the AP-HP
Since then, speech has been freed, and numerous testimonies appear on the networks, taking the same path as other revelations such as #metoo “cinema”, “media” or even “armies”.
A problem that the AP-HP does not deny. She recalls that she had also set up a unit to collect reports since September 2021. “279 reports were processed by the central unit, 5% of which concern situations of a sexual and sexist nature (…) these facts are very probably under-reported, in particular due to the fear of certain victims of reporting the violence that they they undergo” rrecognize the authors.
Good in his body, good in his head!
No report will go unanswered
The Assistance would like to remind this publicly:
“Any AP-HP professional can report to this unit acts of verbal, physical and moral violence (degrading remarks, intimidation, insults, threats, mockery, reproaches), sexual and sexist actions (inappropriate gestures, sexist remarks, insistent looks, blackmail, insults) or discrimination (prejudice, stigmatization, intolerance, devaluation, inequalities, racist remarks)”.
The response to this report then depends on the nature of the facts reported and the level of information provided to support the report. But when it comes to problematic behaviors “measures are taken as soon as possible to put an end to them, depending on the seriousness of the facts. No report goes unanswered” assures the press release.
Hoping that this can improve relationships between professionals. According to a survey by the National Association of Medical Students (Anemf) carried out in 2021, 38.4% of female medical students said they had suffered sexual harassment during their hospital internships, 49.7% “sexist remarks”, and 5 .2% of “inappropriate gestures”, between hands on the buttocks, touching and other “sexual gestures”, recalled BFMTV in its April 16 edition.