The Head of State announced the launch of a one -month “flash mission”. But he admitted that this will not solve the “structural problem” of lack of staff.
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Focused on international subjects and surprisingly discreet since his re-election at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron has decided to return to the field to take care of the Franco-French problems. And thus try to counter the trial in immobility – even absenteeism – that the opposition begins to instruct against him. A month after his last trip to the national stage “in contact”, the head of state went to Cherbourg, in the Channel, Tuesday, May 31, to look at the “systemic crisis” in the health sector , with clogged hospitals and growing medical deserts. And above all, in the short term, see how to respond to a situation deemed very critical in emergency services. With a lack of august staff of a complicated summer to manage, throughout the territory.
According to those around him, the Head of State wanted to “take the pulse” from the Cherbourg emergency department, which has six caregivers, when it would take twenty-five to take care of patients suitable. It was served. Upon his arrival at the end of the afternoon at the Cotentin Public Hospital Center, Emmanuel Macron was faced with a series of more alarmist testimonies than the other. As a succession of cries of the heart from these whistleblowers in white coat, who expressed their increasingly difficult working conditions. “We are no longer there. We are at the end,” launched an emergency worker, during a round table with “all health players” (emergency artists, nurses, general practitioners, administration), ” Access to urgent and unscheduled care “. Before doctors are alarmed to have to run their service with “exhausted personnel”, who are more and more numerous to “leave”, after being in particular on the front line for two years, during the COVID crisis- 19.
“The situation is very, very serious,” alerted Doctor Antoine Leveneur, president of the Regional Union of Liberal Physicians. “There are no more arms in the hospital and there are no more arms in town,” he said, summarizing the problem: “How to organize care to meet the needs of the population ? “Most said they felt” a loss of meaning “in their work. “It is hard to recruit, there is a real discomfort in the profession,” said an emergency official, with “caregivers hit in their value”. “It is complicated to send someone home, telling them that it is nothing urgent. It is human that we manage above all.”
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