Rallies and strikes are planned in at least fifty cities at the call of nine unions and collectives including the CGT and the Amuf, the association of emergency doctors in France.
Reviving the social movement in the hospital to demand immediate measures is the objective of this Tuesday’s unitary mobilization. ” Whether in public hospitals, whether in health, medico-social or social establishments, including emergencies, the system is collapsing. “, denounces Mireille Stivala, general secretary of the social action health federation of the CGT.
” Severe lack of staff »
” There is a crying lack of staff, and therefore structures and services that are closing, but also continuity that is not assured for many patients and residents throughout the territory. »
The objective of this day of mobilization and strike for the hospital should make it possible to ring the alarm bell so that the authorities take emergency measures, in particular at the approach of a summer which promises to be difficult. according to caregivers. For Patrick Pelloux, president of Amuf, the association of emergency physicians in France, there are solutions to put in place as a priority.
” You have too great a disparity in remuneration between the public and the private sector, it has widened. There is an incredible social spiral, a social dumping between the remunerations which are given, for example, to the doctors who work in the interim boxes and to the doctors who work in the hospital. It’s not possible to go on like this “he says at the microphone ofAram Mbengue, of the RFI France service.
We must increase the remuneration of staff, not only doctors, not only hospital practitioners, for their night duty allowance, but all staff, on weekend and night work allowances. A nurse receives 1.07 euros per hour more at night, it is not possible.
Patrick Pelloux President of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf)
” We need the culture of social equality, so that probably means for the summer additional remuneration for everyone, that’s how we can reopen beds. But they’ve created a system that means summer is going to be terrible anyway! And so I’m not telling you, if there’s ever a heat wave, what a mess it’s going to be. »
“ One-year wait times, it’s mind-boggling »
To defend the right of access to quality care, hospital user associations are also taking action. Michèle Leflon is president of the national coordination of the defense committees of local hospitals and maternity wards.
” Users are very worried because they feel that things are going badly and that there are more and more difficulties in accessing care, whether in an emergency or for less urgent things. But if we take the example of psychiatry for children, it is catastrophic. One-year wait times, it’s mind-boggling », she warns. “ We call on citizens to demonstrate on Tuesday. The goal is indeed to have a great day to show that it is everywhere in France where there is deep discontent. »
Demonstrations are planned for Tuesday in several cities in France. In Paris, a rally is planned in front of the Ministry of Health from 1:30 p.m.