The emergency personnel of the University Hospital of Nantes have been on strike indefinitely since Sunday evening to report the working conditions.
systemic demands. On Friday, the emergency personnel of the university hospital of Nantes voted for an indefinite strike, which will begin this Sunday evening starting at midnight, to denounce the current working conditions.
According to Olivier Terrien, general secretary of the CGT at the university hospital of Nantes, “the calibration of the workforce no longer allows patients to be received in good condition”, while “some people sometimes wait more than 72 hours on a stretcher and that 40 children he must be operated on in cardiac surgery by the end of the year, only for 11 operating ranges “.
Despite this unlimited strike, Olivier Terrien states that “we will not abandon the population”.
Continue closing the beds
Stéphane Naulleau, nurse in cardiac surgery and general secretary of FO at CHU, for his part, reports that “working conditions are worsening, colleagues are exhausted, psychologically it is not going well” and that “the discontent started there some day ago with an article in which Philippe El Saïr, director general of the CHU of Nantes, said that the CHU was attractive to health workers, that there was no closure of the beds “, continues the unionist FO,” or 16 beds were still closed in October”.
According to Olivier Terrien, a statement later denied by the ARS (Regional Health Agency) data, since “he said that between 2015 and 2020 700 hospital beds were closed, this is the most profitable and what the private sector tries to absorb, but also 200 in obstetrics, 215 in psychiatry, 200 in follow-up and rehabilitation ”.
The attack staff assigned by the management will welcome patients on Monday morning and during the school holidays, a period of limited staff, “but at the beginning of the school year we are planning punching actions,” completes the 52-year-old caregiver.
