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The famous “flash mission” launched by Macron a month ago to respond to the public hospital crisis has just delivered its first conclusions. In Cherbourg, the Head of State had pretended to discover the dramatic situation of the public hospital, the publication of the report led by Doctor Braun confirms the smoke. On the program: no opening of beds or positions, no salary increases and no means. Contrary to the claims made by caregivers for several years, the 41 recommendations of this “information mission” are in line with the neoliberal policies that have destroyed the public hospital in recent decades.
“The flash mission was supposed to ‘save’ the emergency services, it’s quite the opposite” reacts Marie-Laure Charchar, general secretary of the CGT laundry of the CHU of Bordeaux. “What they are doing is making it official that we are constantly going to work in a degraded way. It’s disgusting, we were on the front line of the health crisis and after the 183 euros from Ségur, we are forced to have to filter patients instead of giving us the means. ».
“We need beds, workstations, no locks at the entrance to the Emergency Department” rightly points to the CGT press release in response to the report. Conversely, the recommendations of the “flash mission” promise the sustainability of the current operation of the public hospital. The “regulation of admissions to emergency departments” is thus for the first time officially claimed. Or when the praise of austerity becomes the norm.
To the lack of staff and doctors, once again the response is that of austerity. Far from any job opening and the implementation of a training plan, the report stipulates, for example, that in the event of the absence of an emergency doctor, an “emergency paramedical team, a nurse-ambulance pair” could be mobilized. Again, it is not a question of opening beds to meet the shortage but of “better managing” those that exist. “Much more than contempt, these recommendations by establishing precariousness, endanger the life and health of the population” comments Marie-Laure Carchar.
Unsurprisingly, the question of wages is also completely absent from the recommendations. For “recognition of the arduousness” of the work, only an increase in night hours during the summer is envisaged. One more provocation in the context of inflation.
Faced with this new affront from the government, we must demand increases in resources, salaries and hiring. 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. It is in this sense that Marie Laure Charchar concludes: “We will have to realize the seriousness of this report. From now on, we have to organize and coordinate for a real battle plan to impose the application of our demands. ».
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