In the issue of Survey Network which will be broadcast this Wednesday, March 16 at 11:05 p.m. on France 3, Charles-Henry Boudet went to the Grand Est to meet overinvested and passionate doctors and nursing staff, but in great professional suffering. The journalist and his team notably went to the University Hospital of Nancy, to the Metz-Mercy hospital and to the Hôtel-Dieu de Mont-Saint-Martin, then for three days to the Bel-Air hospital in Thionville, where they met caregivers out of breath, under pressure, even scared. “At first”, explains Charles-Henry Boudet, “we were able to film in different departments and collect testimonies with uncovered faces. And we attended the general assembly of a group of suffering doctors. The next day, we started receiving text messages from caregivers begging us to blur faces for fear of retaliation from senior management. »
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“A real malaise in Thionville”
In Bel-Air as everywhere else, the public hospital is emptying of its lifeblood. Burn-out, depressions and resignations multiply. In France, 25,000 positions are now vacant, thousands of beds have been closed for lack of staff and some caregivers work up to 70 hours a week.
How many of them will resist the current pressures and tensions for a long time to come? What future for the hospital when caregivers and management are in open conflict over its mode of management? As many questions as Survey Network addresses in its report, with the reactions of Marie-Odile Saillard, the general director of the CHR Metz-Thionville, heads of pole, service, and nursing students from Mont-Saint-Martin who do not hide their attraction for Luxembourg…
“We felt a real malaise within the Thionvillois establishment”, continues Charles-Henry Boudet, “complicated relations between the medical profession and the management. This contrasts with the example of the Valenciennes hospital where, for ten years, it is the doctors who manage the budgets, and not the administration. “With a new maternity unit costing more than 40 million euros and major rehabilitation work, the Bel-Air hospital seems physically healthy. But his mental state is very fragile. On the verge of losing (re)consciousness.
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