While the hospital staff are warmly applauded every evening, voices are already heard to start again as if nothing had happened, even to amplify the errors that led the public hospital to its current state.
The deterioration of working conditions and the quality of care has been denounced since the Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories Law of 2009, which made public hospitals a business. Since then, savings, reductions in beds and staff, plans to cut budgets have been the alpha and omega of accounting governance. The Covid-19 crisis revealed shortages: in staff, materials, resuscitation beds, drugs.
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Despite this, without sufficient means of protection, the nursing staff, like all those directly serving our fellow citizens, have accomplished their duty. In record time, entire departments were transformed to accommodate patients with Covid-19. The number of resuscitation beds has more than doubled.
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