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HEALTH – Hospital staff took to the streets across France on Tuesday January 11 to demand wage increases, but also “resources” and “jobs” for the public hospital washed out by the successive waves of Covid-19 and bed closures, AFP journalists noted.
In Paris, some 3,000 people according to the CGT, 900 according to the police, left the Cochin hospital (14th arrondissement) to join the Invalides behind a banner “together to obtain better salaries and the improvement of our conditions of service. job”.
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The Ségur de la santé, which has resulted in wage increases and investments, “has not settled anything”, told AFP the secretary general of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, referring to hospital staff “exhausted ”. “You need a lot more resources, human and financial resources. And we must stop closing beds ”, he stressed. In the procession, the red balloons of the CGT were numerous, the flags of the SOUTH more rare.
This event was part of a day of national mobilization at the call of the CGT, SUD and CFE-CGC unions and several healthcare collectives (Inter-Hôpitaux, Inter-Urgences, Inter-Blocs, Printemps de la psychiatry…).
“More means” to “not die”
In Bordeaux, the event brought together around 1,500 participants according to the organizers. “We have plenty in the CHU”, “Ségur for all”, “the first of the rope, it’s us”, could we read on the signs of the participants, who realized in front of the Regional Health Agency a minute of applause for all caregivers “burned out” since the start of the pandemic.
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For Hakim Cherifi, emergency doctor at the Bordeaux Saint-André hospital, the public hospital has suffered from “20 years of accounting policy” and needs “more resources” to “not die”. “Having patients in the emergency room 24 hours on a stretcher for lack of beds is what bothers me the most,” he told AFP.
Many technicians and hospital workers were present in the procession to denounce their working conditions and their remuneration. “We have extremely rigorous cleaning protocols for our machines and more and more patients for Covid, cancer and serious illnesses to be treated. We work like at the factory ”, denounced Cécile Mata, 39, radiology manipulator at Bordeaux University Hospital, claiming“ the same premiums ”for technicians as for caregivers in order to recruit young people.
“Beyond fatigue”
Everywhere, the demonstrators denounced the increasingly heavy workload, like Charlène Germain, manipulator at the CHU of Brest, met among the some 300 demonstrators who marched in the city Tuesday morning: “the activity has increased but the workforce did not increase, ”she explains. “We have less and less time to take care of patients, while the number of radiological examinations has almost tripled with the health crisis. What we feel goes beyond fatigue, it is weariness ”.
In Lille, where some 400 people marched, a sign proclaimed “the more you are useful, the less you get paid”. Adrien, a 29-year-old nurse in a public mental health establishment, deplores a workforce that has gone from 29 to 22 full-time equivalents in his service during his seven years of work: “the workforce is on the street, there is no enough people. I still have a vocation, but I am tired ”.
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Live from the demonstration of #Little Education goes hand in hand with caregivers and social workers. Fed up with the scrapping of public services!
????Rather than ventilating the upcoming job cuts, the classrooms must be ventilated!#BlanquerAbsentpic.twitter.com/u9dQROV5TO— Malik YAHIATÈNE – France Insoumise???? (@FI_M_Yahiatene) January 11, 2022
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Among the demonstrators, some also denounced the fact of being excluded from the upgrades of the Ségur de la santé, like Antony Valladon, 48, a nursing assistant in an association which marched in Paris: “in our establishment, 50 % of staff have been excluded ”from Ségur,“ care professions will have the 183 euros but not support professions nor unqualified staff ”.
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See also on Le HuffPost: At Rennes University Hospital, an emergency service “at the end of the line” goes on strike
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