This Thursday, hospital staff will go as one man in front of the Emergency Department to protest against the night attack suffered by an orthopedic surgeon within the hospital itself. Since then, tongues have been loosened, the victims of attacks speak, “there is a feeling of insecurity among the staff on duty at night”.
An attack that will enrich the columns of the national media about Mayotte, since for some months they have relayed the local press on insecurity, and the presence on the spot of Minister Darmanin for New Year’s Day is an indicator of this. .
The attack on the doctor took place at the very moment when the director general of the CHM, Jean-Matthieu Defour, was giving an interview to Hospimédia, a press specializing in the supply of care, to claim a “shock of attractiveness”. It is for the Mayotte hospital to “renew half of its workforce, ie 1,400 agents”, while “the staff are on the verge of exhaustion”.
First of all because of travel times linked to traffic jams, with staff getting up at 3am to get to work, but also, an “oversaturated” hospital. We know that the CHM remains the only hospital still operating under the annual operating grant paid each year by the Health Insurance. But “he approached 10,700 deliveries last year. It has only five operating rooms for a living area of 300,000 inhabitants. The working conditions there are greatly “degraded” and the influx of foreign patients from the neighboring Comoros further fuels this health congestion”, summarizes Jean-Matthieu Defour, who indicates that the investment of 120 million euros in deep restructuring of the CHM by 2025 is awaiting validation by the National Health Investment Council (Cnis).
Faced with these challenges, it is necessary to attract hospital workers, and faced with what he calls a “media shock”, with a surge of national information on insecurity in Mayotte, he calls for a “shock of attractiveness”. If its territorial recruitment agency, crowned by the grand jury prize at the end of September during the 10 HR innovation prizes, awarded by the FHF, was created to pamper caregivers, it is still insufficient. As we reported, she obtained results on paramedics, which was her first target, but not yet on doctors and midwives, for the latter, there are 50 vacancies.
One solution is to bring caregivers from Reunion or metropolitan France, guaranteeing them “the right to return”. “For the CHM, it is also an opportunity to install specialties that have not existed on the island until now in order to avoid medical evacuations”, explains the director.
But to secure arrivals, he asks for a “shock of attractiveness”, ie “resolute action by the public authorities on wages and tax exemption”. Especially since we will have to find something to fill the positions of the 2nd hospital with 500 beds in Tsingoni and the 1st clinic in Chirongui with Clinifutur.
A.P-L.
