The emergency rooms of the Novo de Pontoise hospital (Val-d’Oise) are rocked by a cascade of sick leave from health workers. The latter are about 90% not working on Monday to denounce the deterioration of their working conditions, reports AFP. The UrgencesEnArrêtMaladie account, which brings together emergency room health workers, revealed this unprecedented figure on Twitter: «90 % of the Adult Emergencies nursing staff of Pontoise Hospital is on sick leave since this morning, a great first in IDF (Ile-de-France)!! The agents meet at 9 am at the Directorate. »
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Sick leave confirmed by the hospital, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Île-de-France and the prefecture of Val-d’Oise. The director of the Novo de Pontoise hospital, Alexandre Aubert, also clarified this Monday morning, in front of the press, including AFP, that 49 people were on sick leave, ie. “63% of the overall team”.
Requested a “white plan”.
Discussions between management and nursing staff should take place on Tuesday in order to find solutions to improve working conditions. The staff point out the lack of staff and space in their service. These tensions have been magnified with the ongoing triple epidemic of Covid-19, flu and bronchiolitis, AFP recalls.
The carers also ask that a “white plan” be immediately activated to free up beds, descheduling operations classified as non-urgent.
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The director of the Novo de Pontoise hospital says they are definitely there ” requests “ but also a feeling of loneliness. She insisted “huge psychological factor”which according to him would be at the origin of this protest movement.
The lack of dialogue
A factor also underlined by Éric Boucharel, departmental secretary of the UNSA Public and private social health of the Val-d’Oise. “They are all in a deplorable psychological state”he complained to AFP. According to this trade unionist, carers must “getting to work with the risk of losing a patient because we don’t have four arms and the management remains deaf”. It also indicates that this is the first time that the emergency crisis has taken on such a scale in the Paris region.
To pour “Get out of this day of endless crisis”, Emmanuel Macron announced, during a trip to Essonne last Friday, a reorganization of the hospital. The Head of State also presented measures to facilitate patient access to general practitioners.
