Tuesday, June 7, hospital staff gathered in around fifty cities in France, in response to the call of nine unions and collective caregivers.
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At the emergency department of the Timone Hospital (AP-HM), in Marseille, no striker of the striker nor banner on the facade suggest the day of national mobilization. The workforce is present this Tuesday, June 7. “We all received our requisition order last week,” explains Elodie Lemariey, 37, one of the service health executives. However, nurses, caregivers and doctors all say they are “very concerned” and testify to general weariness. Here, on thirty doctors stations, fourteen are vacant.
“If I am asked what I want right away, I answer: doctors!” Head of the emergency department, Céline Meguerditchian juggles, like every day, with her service tables. Today, they are four emergency physicians and an orthopedic doctor. “We should be new, but we reorganized to ensure continuity and respect working time,” she says. Since midnight, 80 patients have presented themselves in the service. The saturation threshold is set at sixty. Here, with an average of 250 passages per day, it is regularly reached.
The emergency crisis is the starting point for the mobilization on Tuesday. In the absence of caregivers, 120 services were forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a statement established at the end of May by the association Samu-Urgences de France. On May 31, Emmanuel Macron announced the launch of a “Flash mission”, managed by François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences de France, who will have to give his conclusions to the Minister of Health “at the latest on 1 ER July “.
But the announcement does not reassure. “What is going to be settled in a month?” Asks a nurse framework present in the Bordeaux procession, denouncing a new “dressing” measure. Many executives from the three sites of the University Hospital Center (CHU) in Bordeaux – Pellegrin, Haut -Lévêque and Saint -André – have mobilized. They underline the importance of their participation, in support of the emergency room, while on May 18, the service of the CHU Pellegrin closed its doors to the all-year-old from 5 p.m. to 8 am. At these times, it is the Samu who sorts for entries.
“People do not measure the emergency”
At the tail of the demonstration part of the Rennes University Hospital, Dorothée Degruson, which represents the Interhôpitaux Collective (CIH), came to make the voice of users heard. In the rally, which has some 200 people, few non-health of health. “People do not measure the emergency. When they come to the hospital, they are well treated by a hurried but smiling staff despite all the dysfunctions.”
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