This is not always the case and it deserves to be underlined: unions and management agree on the fact that the Chartres hospital, and particularly the services dedicated to the elderly, is confronted with very significant difficulties in absenteeism of staff and vacant positions, which affect working conditions and the balance of remaining staff: sick leave, burn-out, impossibility of taking legal leave, extended days, etc.
“We are on the verge of implosion. All grades of our professions are now concerned. We must act quickly. It is not our job to find solutions to this problem, ”assures FO Santé in Chartres, the initiator of the unlimited strike movement which begins on Thursday.
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“If we can’t recruit, we have to ask the right questions”, believe Corinne Legeay, general secretary and Sylviane Ménager, permanent, citing in particular “the lack of attractiveness of Chartres hospital” and the lack of attractiveness of the different professions of nursing staff.
“We are told that it is punctual, but the punctual becomes sustainable”, regret the representatives of FO Health, however noting “the will of the management to hire”.
As a result, according to the union, the nursing assistants would increasingly do the tasks of the nurses, while the agents normally responsible for the maintenance and hygiene of the premises in the hospitals those of the nursing assistants.
The management of the hospital, through the voice of the deputy director, Yvon Le Tilly, does not deny “very isolated cases. We learned that blood sugar levels had been taken by caregivers. We immediately stopped that,” he says.
They became parents thanks to the PMA center of the Dreux hospital
Asked about the proportion of absent staff in relation to the total workforce, the hospital management replied, through the voice of the deputy director, Yvon Le Tilly, that the absenteeism rate was around 10%, with sometimes significant differences depending on the services.
“An agreement signed with the unions”
The management recalls the context “still linked to Covid-19” and reveals that it is matching the reception capacities of patients in the services according to the staff at its disposal. For example, it closed geriatric beds, because the service could no longer afford them. Yvon Le Tilly also specifies that the management of the hospital has signed an agreement with the three health unions represented in the establishment of Chartres, to put in place measures which should facilitate the recruitment of staff and the hiring of young people who leave from the Chartres Health Training Institute, with financial aid in particular.
Finally he affirms: “There is no desire on the part of the establishment to make unwelcome savings in this difficult context for all”.
Francois Feuilleux
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