Above all, do not release the pressure. At the start of the year, the CGT Health and Social Action, at the origin of this new day of action, said it wanted to “stay on the offensive”. “The problems that we have been denouncing for months have still not been resolved, far from it,” squeak officials of the federation.
Suffering and exhaustion
“We believed for a moment that the Covid-19 pandemic would lead to a ‘world after’ for the hospital. This hope was quickly disappointed, ”says Thierry Amouroux, spokesperson for the national union of nursing professionals (SNPI).
A study by the Ministry of Health, published last September, figures at 5,700 the number of closed full hospital beds, in 2020, in public and private establishments.
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“Proof that the bleeding continues irreparably,” sighs Thierry Amouroux, who at the same time observes a drastic drop in staff, a direct consequence according to him of “the suffering, exhaustion and professional insecurity” suffered by caregivers.
“Infernal circle”
“In the Ile-de-France establishments of the AP-HP, he explains, 3,200 nurses have left since June 1 and only 1,845 have been recruited. The delta is huge… Nationally, there is a shortage of 60,000 nurses today, and around 10% of caregivers are on leave. An infernal circle has taken place: people are leaving because the working conditions are deplorable, and these successive departures only accelerate the deterioration of these same working conditions. Despite everything, the government continues to claim that the hospital is standing. But it’s wrong?! “
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“The executive lies to us openly”, resumes Pierre Schwob, vice-president of the inter-emergency collective, convinced to attend “a hunt organized by the institution”.
“The state may inject billions, it is taking advantage of the crisis to destroy the public hospital.”
Pierre Schwob (Inter-emergency collective)
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To try, therefore, “to avoid the complete collapse of the system”, the various organizations have drawn up a long list of demands: revaluation of salaries and careers, better recognition of arduousness, reform of the university course for “more benevolence. and collegiality ”, or even reassessment of the use of telemedicine and outpatient care.
“Care is human”, summarize the unions and collectives mobilized.
Stephane Barnoin
– Association of emergency physicians of France, CFE-CGC, CGT, Sud, Inter-bloc, inter-hospital and inter-emergency collectives, Printemps de la psychiatrie, National coordination of committees for the defense of local hospitals and maternities.
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