“We have reached a breaking point, a seesaw, with a kind of discouragement, disengagement” of caregivers, alerted this Thursday Rémi Salomon, president of the Establishment Medical Commission (CME), the representative body of doctors in Paris hospitals (AP-HP), on France Info.
The one who also chairs the Conference of CME Presidents of the CHUs of France described as “the very beginning” the announcement on Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, of a doubling of the payment of overtime for caregivers. “We will have to go much further” and also “faster”, he said, also mentioning the need to pay better for guards and on-call duty.
Shortage of caregivers
As for the announcement of early recruitment of student nurses awaiting graduation, “it’s a good thing,” said Professor Salomon. The Minister of Health announced on Wednesday a series of “first measures” to overcome a “difficult summer” at the hospital, “without waiting” for the conclusions of a flash mission commissioned by the government on emergencies.
Rémi Salomon estimated that the country had a “very good health system, which on the whole works rather well”, but within which, “in many hospitals in France we can no longer treat properly”, for lack of a sufficient number of caregivers. According to him, “there is not enough money in the hospital to treat properly”.
Do not go to the emergency room “for a yes or a no”
The situation is particularly difficult in the emergency services, 120 of which have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count released at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association.
Professor Salomon appealed to citizens “not to go to the emergency room for a yes or a no” and to favor city medicine when possible. On this subject, these “two worlds which turn their backs, city and hospital medicine, must speak to each other to ensure the permanence of care”, he added.
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