Months pass and the situation of the public hospital is more and more alarming.
This Thursday on Franceinfo, the president of the Medical Establishment Commission (CME), the representative body of doctors in Paris hospitals (AP-HP), Rémi Salomon estimated that caregivers have arrived at a "point of rupture, at a rocker, with a kind of discouragement, disengagement ”of the caregivers.
According to Professor Salomon, who also chairs the Conference of CME Presidents of the CHUs of France, the announcement on Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, of a doubling of the payment of overtime for caregivers is only one “very beginning”.
“We will have to go much further” and also “faster”, he said, also mentioning the need to pay better for guards and on-call duty.
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Rémi Salomon also described as "a good thing" the announcement of early recruitment of nursing students awaiting graduation.
On Wednesday, the Minister of Health announced a series of "first steps" to overcome a "difficult summer" at the hospital, "without waiting" for the conclusions of a flash mission commissioned by the government on emergencies.
"In many hospitals in France we can no longer treat properly"
Still on Franceinfo, Professor Salomon estimated that the country had a “very good health system, which on the whole works rather well”, but within which, “in many hospitals in France we can no longer treat properly", for lack of a sufficient number of caregivers.
According to him, “there is not enough money in the hospital to treat properly”.
According to a count released at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association, nearly 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing to do so.
Finally, Professor Salomon appealed to citizens "not to go to the emergency room for a yes or a no" and to favor city medicine when possible.
On this subject, these "two worlds which turn their backs, city and hospital medicine, must speak to each other to ensure the continuity of care", he added.
