The Samu-urgences union in France has filed a strike notice for the day of July 3, 2023 in order to warn about working conditions. In Mulhouse and Colmar, hospital doctors will participate in the movement by only welcoming a new patient when a box becomes available.
Hospital staff are angry. Just like the inter-union Action practitioners hospital, the union Samu-emergencies of France filed, at the beginning of June, a strike notice with the Minister of Health François Braun for the day of July 3, 2023. At the Mulhouse hospital, emergency doctors announced that they will participate in the movement.
To make their voices heard, they don’t just want to wear an armband anymore”striking“. With their teams, the emergency doctors of Mulhouse will carry out an operation named “Zero stretcher in our corridors“to protest against the crisis affecting hospitals, although the Mulhouse establishment still manages to get its head above water. Note that a mandatory minimum service must be provided during this type of movement in hospitals.
“The watchword is to wear a strong symbol. The profession is in decline. We are not strikers at heart, but there, it is essential“, confides Marc Noizet, head of emergencies and Samu 68. The strikers’ operation aims to welcome a new patient only when a place becomes available. “There will be no overbooking like every day“, adds the health professional.
Each doctor will carry out a control upstream of the emergency reception in order to identify the vital needs which would require care without delay. “Obviously, if we have an uncontrollable influx of patients, we will stop our movement“, he assures.
For emergency physicians, the important thing is to restore the attractiveness of the profession. “The President of the Republic said that he would respond to our concern last January”, remembers Marc Noizet. “We had started a dialogue and consultation with the Ministry of Health which was abruptly interrupted in May, for no apparent reason.“.
For the moment, there is no prospect of a resumption of discussions. “There is an urgent need to act, but we are not the priority and that is scaring away our young people. Many tell me that they don’t want to continue if it continues like this. The government did not ask the question when it came to putting billions for the army“, laments the emergency doctor.
We have a capacity of 60 beds, but a hundred are often occupied
Marc Noizet, president of Samu-emergencies of France
The head of the Mulhouse emergency department regrets that the situation has been deteriorating continuously for fifteen years. “In our service, we have a capacity of 60 beds, but a hundred are often occupied, thanks to those made available in the corridors. There are no more ‘normal’ days‘. I fear that patients will give in and delay their care, this could lead to a situation similar to the Covid-19 pandemic in a few months“, he regrets.
The Colmar emergencies will also go on strike that day, with a similar operation aimed at demonstrating the degradation “distressing” of the supply of care. The Samu-urgences of France hopes that the dialogue with the government will resume and that concrete actions will be taken from the start of the next school year.
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