When he opened his registered letter that Monday, he felt the ax fall. Let him prepare the boxes: he only has a few days left to vacate the office and take leave of an eight-year-old patient.
Psychiatrist at the medico-psycho-pedagogical center (CMPP) of Villejuif, Dr Régis Airault will officially leave this municipal structure this Sunday evening. His contract was not renewed this time. If the town hall “does nothing but put an end to a CDD”, the 62-year-old man unfairly considers himself “dismissed six months from retirement”.
“I no longer have a salary as of this Monday, and I am forced to let go of patients supported day and night during this period that we know is overwhelming, fulminates the psychiatrist. It is total violence! “
Multiple careers
Régis Airault is a hospital practitioner. It is to him that the island of Mayotte owes its first mental health service. But what popularized his name is the fruit of work matured fifteen years earlier, when he was a doctor from the French Embassy to the Bombay consulate. His book “Mad people from India, Western delirium and oceanic feeling” dates from May 2000.
Associate researcher at CNRS, lecturer at Pitié-Salpêtrière, the specialist in children and adolescents also qualified in addictology joined the Paul-Guiraud psychiatric hospital in Villejuif in 2007.
200 patients followed
On secondment from May 2014, Régis Airault became an employee of the city after already two years of “secondment”. He was then doctor-director of the medico-psycho-pedagogical center, and consulted at the Pierre-Rouquès municipal health center as well as at the Pasteur medical annex. He follows 200 “neurotic, psychotic or drug addicted” patients.
The psychiatrist definitely outside the bosom of Paul-Guiraud knows that it is expensive for the municipality. But he is at the “13th rung” of the grid, and his functions allow him to “work as closely as possible. [ses] ideal, close to the patient. “
Health crisis requires, the last three months will undoubtedly have been the most intense of his local career. With hours spent, teleworking, “reassuring patients who were afraid” and “renewing prescriptions”.
“Fortunately he was there during confinement”
“Dr. Airault never let go of my son. Even hospitalized after his suicide attempt during confinement, supports this mother of a 17-year-old boy. He often spoke to her on the phone, consoled me and even contacted the caregivers of Bicêtre… ”
