Tribune. “We do not rewrite the story in a snap of your fingers,” said the Minister of Health [in Liberation of October 27]. However, neither the 12 billion euros announced on the occasion of the segur of health, nor the promises of seeing a new generation of caregivers (within indeterminate deadlines) are enough to stem the departure of the staff of public hospitals. Fragmented rest, irregular plannings, lack of recognition, caregivers can no longer and this now affects more and more heavily care.
We are expecting strong, incentive and immediate measures on the part of women and politicians, representatives of the state and guarantors of the health of their fellow citizens, of our health.
Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, epilepsy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, inflammatory neuropathies, multiple sclerosis, amyloses, myopathies, spinal amyotrophies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, myasthenia, muscle dystrophies … Neuromuscular diseases for neurodegenerative diseases, we are several million people who are particularly affected by patients who are particularly concerned with the continuous closing of beds in specialized units of public hospitals.
The reception and support of these people with heterogeneous and complex needs require a lot of medical and paramedical personnel to specific skills. To dress, wash, eat, move, go to the bathroom, communicate, being safe, take treatment are all elements yet essential, but particularly concerned by the lack of staff.
Should we remember the constitutional value of health protection in our country?
“Sanitary desertion”
It is clear that today in France, in the services of neurology, for lack of staff, the response to the needs of the patients is no longer adapted. If we do not want to see a health disaster of a different nature than the one we have just lived, you have to go much faster and much further to attract and retain staff in care units.
Although we did not have a very specific figures, we find that some services had to close more than half of their beds. If the HP hospitals are often highlighted, in reality, very few public institutions escape this movement of “sanitary desertion” of unpublished magnitude.
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