“The COVID health crisis continues to reveal the consequences of capitalist and stock market choices which have weakened our health system and which sacrifice the health of our fellow citizens.
In South Aveyron, these choices are hidden behind the scam of chimerical so-called “median” or “single” hospital projects, the sole purpose of which is in fact to close beds, remove staff already exploited and despised, and get rid of the two local hospitals of Millau and Saint-Affrique.
It is in this context that the ARS (Regional Health Agency, spokesperson for the government) announces with pomp and circumstance an intervention by staff and surgeons of the Montpellier University Hospital in the gastroenterology departments of the Hospitals of South Aveyron.
Behind the announcement effects obviously preparing a new offensive to impose on us the median hospital, hides the desire of the management to reduce the number of operating theaters in Millau and Saint-Affrique which will lead to a further decrease in the number. of staff.
What is presented as a godsend will in fact contribute to worsening the financial situation of our 2 hospitals and to justifying the closure of an establishment in South Aveyron, i.e. a reduction in the supply of care and a decline in proximity, exactly the opposite of the needs that the current health crisis calls for. Money before HUMAN!
“Hospitals are the measure of the civilization of a people”, wrote Jacques Tenon in 1788.
It is the responsibility of all of us to fight a decline in civilization which mutilates a common good essential for our health. Such an issue should also be borne by elected officials claiming to be from the left, the real one, the one who does not take refuge behind lukewarm water and who does not entrust the defense and modernization of our public hospitals to a few citizens drawn by lot. .
We call for support and participation in the actions of the MANIFESTO of local hospitals and maternities in South Aveyron, as well as to consult their press release dated 01-02-2021 explaining the workings of this political and media manipulation ”. (email address [email protected])
Jacques Nicol and Jean-Pierre Hervas
For the Millau and Saint-Affrique sections of the PCF
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