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Hospital crisis: Macron in Cherbourg to defuse anger
In recent weeks, anger has swelled in the public hospital. As summer approaches, many hospitals see their emergency services saturated, in Limoges, Jonzac, Dijon, Chaumont, Rambouillet or Montluçon. What to announce a potential disaster this summer, as alert many caregivers and collectives such as Inter-Emergency.
In this context, Macron chose this Tuesday to go to the Cotentin public hospital center in Cherbourg, after Élisabeth Borne announced last Friday, following a meeting with ministers, that health would be one of the government’s three “priorities” alongside purchasing power and ecology.
In fact, the Cotentin hospital is concerned by the dramatic consequences of the lack of staff. Thus, in the face of difficulties, a telephone line to be called before coming to the emergency room has recently been set up. from 3 p.m. until 8:30 a.m.. Difficulties that nearly 300 demonstrators, workers and users, were also gathered to denounce on the spot. « We can’t let hospitals sit on their hands without doing anything. Funding our hospitals must be a priority. “testified in particular Lucie, resident of Cherbourg, with La Presse de la Manche.
A “mission of information”: Macron smokes us
However, while the claims of caregivers and the problems of the hospital have been known and widely repeated for three years, Macron has engaged in yet another smoke-out in Cherbourg. On site, the President indeed met the caregivers and took part in a round table. However, at the end of the day, Macron finally announced as a response to the crisis situation… a “one-month fact-finding mission” on the state of the emergency services.
While emergency services have experienced a massive movement affecting more than 75 services in France in 2019 and hospital workers have regularly mobilized since the pandemic, Macron pretends to discover the problem. A new smoke which makes it possible to postpone the response to the emergency situation which strikes the hospital, while posting pledges in the direction of caregivers two weeks before the legislative elections.
The latter obviously have nothing to expect from yet another “information mission” which will moreover be led by François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences, head of emergencies at the CHR Metz-Thionville, but above all health referent of the program election of Emmanuel Macron. As a foretaste, Macron also welcomed in Cherbourg the filtering put in place to deal with the shortage of personnel by qualifying this clear degradation of the public service as a “very innovative” solution. A true eulogy of austerity.
We know the situation, we must demand an increase in resources, wages and hiring!
In this context, the pill may not pass so easily, while all the hospitals are under tension and the health personnel are exhausted after two and a half years of pandemic. After the Ségur de la Santé masquerade, what health workers really need and have been asking for for years are resources, hiring and an increase in salaries.
From this point of view, the three weeks of actions in health establishments from May 31 to June 17, as well as the national mobilization day of June 7 called by the inter-union, can make it possible to begin to build a response to the height of the seriousness of the situation and not allow ourselves to be locked into the electoral agenda.
A mobilization that must be carried out alongside users – as are already various gatherings that took place in France this month in Poitiers, Bordeaux or Oloron-Saint-Marie – but which more broadly raises the question of a response general in the world of work. While sectoral and local mobilizations are taking place in different sectors around the issue of wages, and the cost of living is increasing a little more every day, the destruction of the public service and its privatization means a further blow to the population. and in particular to workers, working-class neighborhoods and young people. In this sense, it is necessary to prepare an overall response, for salaries and the defense of public services!
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