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Nurses, nursing assistants, hospital services agents… The staff of the gastroenterology service of the Hospitals of Chartres have been on strike for an indefinite period since Monday 5 December, on summons from the CGT of the Hospitals of Chartres. He denounces the recurring shortage of nurses following the departure of three of them, who have not been replaced.
The strike continues for night staff at the Louis-Pasteur hospital in Coudray
“Today, there are only five full-time nurses out of the ten needed for the service”, specifies the trade union secretariat of the CGT. “The management calls temporary workers and on holidays, but it is increasingly difficult to fill these positions during the week and on Saturdays. »
“Physically and psychologically exhausted”
It would take at least six nurses a day, 7am to 9pm, to provide day care service and care, says the CGT. “There aren’t enough seniors to train the newcomers,” regrets a nurse on duty. “We can no longer carry out all our missions; we are physically and psychologically exhausted. Nurses and hospital service agents are obliged to help us, and they too feel in difficulty. »
Staff are calling for an “emergency solution” to remedy this “dangerous situation for patients, who need treatment. Today we can no longer guarantee their well-being. »
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The CGT is calling for the immediate and permanent hiring of a nurse and the replacement of the post of the one who has left. “We are doing everything to fill the missing nursing positions,” says Yvon Le Tilly, deputy director of hospitals in Chartres. “But we still have to find candidates. »
Waiting for a permanent solution
For the deputy director, reducing the capacity of the service would not solve the current difficulties: “We would risk having an influx of patients through the emergency room. And the pathology of some of them requires hospitalization. »
Groupings of units are planned for the end of the year to allow carers to leave. Waiting for a permanent solution.
“I feel like I’m falling back on my values, that I’m not doing my job well anymore,” complains a nursing assistant in the gastroenterology department. “I have been in Chartres hospital for more than twenty years, I have never seen a situation like this…”
Lorenzo Francescana
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