The mobilization of farmers gave ideas to nurses.
“We tried, throughout last year, to meet all elected officials to raise awareness of the difficulties of our profession.
In fact, we got nowhere.
When we saw that the farmers were going into the street, we said to ourselves, we too are going to show ourselves
,” Gaëlle Cannat, president of the Collective of Angry Liberal Nurses, declared on Franceinfo this Monday.
Like the collective, several union organizations have called for snail operations this Monday in Marseille, Gap, Bayonne, Bordeaux and even Dijon.
Those who consider themselves
“the forgotten ones of
Ségur de la santé
”
of 2020 highlight the arduousness of their work, asking in particular for the revaluation of their actions.
“Like many other professions, we are exasperated by the lack of recognition, the underpayment, the increasing arduousness of the profession, the administrative overload,”
denounced Convergence Nurse, one of the unions initiating the mobilization, in a press release published at the end of January.
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“
Psychological and physical exhaustion
”
Faced with the difficulties of the profession,
“58% of firms will close within five years
,” warns Gaëlle Cannat.
In 2023, there were 135,000 self-employed nurses in France, 53% of whom worked in a rural environment, according to figures from Sniil, the main union in the profession.
“We love our job, but today we are facing psychological and physical exhaustion
,” added the Collective of Angry Liberal Nurses in an open letter addressed to Frédéric Valletoux, newly appointed Minister Delegate for Health.
Like Gabriel Attal with the farmers, it is a baptism of fire for the former journalist and president of the federation of public hospitals who became a minister.
“Health is not just about hospitals
,” recalled John Pinte, president of Sniil, the day after the appointment of Frédéric Valletoux, judging it
“imperative that the new delegate minister takes stock of the issues devoted to the specificities of the liberal exercise .”