Calls for a rally in front of the Carhaix hospital on Saturday October 12 are increasing. The Carhaix sports office, the CGT local union of Carhaix, the Sud Santé Sociaux union of Finistère as well as the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste Kreiz Breizh and Kemper committees, the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste 29, the Communist Party and the UDB Kreiz Breizh, in turn call on the population to meet at 11:30 a.m. in front of the establishment to demand “the reopening of Carhaisian emergencies 24 hours a day, seven days a week” in accordance with the crisis exit protocol ratified in October 2023.
The sports office
The sports office invites the sporting world to mobilize. “Despite the protocol of October 27, 2023 (signed but still not implemented), several vital services at Carhaix hospital are threatened and the emergency rooms partially open. These services are essential to the health of the population of our territory and particularly for our associations and sports organizations,” indicates the structure in a press release.
L’union locale CGT
“Regulated” emergencies have become the norm everywhere in Brittany and France,” deplores the local CGT union in Carhaix, which considers that it is “up to the entire nation to ensure this access to health. It is therefore up to the State, its democratic incarnation, to guarantee each individual, whatever their financial means, place of residence and origin, access to quality care.” “We must therefore all unite to defend a public health service, with funding based on social security contributions,” writes the union, which also demands that “finally, all lawsuits brought against the defenders of the hospital cease.”
The NPA-the Anticapitalist
“So that never again a patient taken care of by the firefighters and referred by the 15 to the Carhaix emergency room, is obliged with these same firefighters to travel 350 km and five hours of driving between different hospitals to finally be taken care of at Noyal Pontivy”, explain for their part the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste Kreiz Breiz and Kemper committees and the NPA-l’Anticapitaliste 29. The latter also demand the strengthening of the hospital’s resources, the dismissal of the complaint against the defenders of the hospital summoned under the regime of police custody as well as the consolidation of health insurance in particular and Social Security as a whole.
South social health of Finistère
For Sud Santé Sociaux du Finistère, this regional mobilization of October 12 aims to support the public hospital “in the face of the destructive policies of successive governments”. “It must remind our politicians that we are more determined than ever to defend public services in general at a time when the Prime Minister plans to implement yet another austerity policy with new attacks on public functions. The public hospital is one of the pivots of national solidarity and we must defend it,” indicates the union.
Communist Party of Carhaix-Huelgoat
“The attack orchestrated for many years against our public services, including our health service, is the result of a political, neoliberal desire to break down for the benefit of the private sector,” points out the PCF, adding: “Health is It is also the nursing homes whose successive reports show the race for profit to the detriment of the well-being of residents. » The communists of Carhaix-Huelgoat demand respect for the “protocol signed in 2023”.
UDB Kreiz Breizh
For its part, the UDB Kreiz Breizh denounces “the collusion of interests between the ARS, the management of the Brest hospital and the prefects who apply to the letter the policies of breaking the public hospital put in place by successive governments. For the party, “the new policy that must be put in place in Brittany necessarily involves calling into question the policy of the centralizing State and more autonomy for Brittany in the management of the health card and services local public”.
