"
Without them, hospitals close
."
It is a cry of alarm that launches Patrick Pelloux in an interview devoted to the shortage of emergency caregivers in France.
Romanians, Algerians, Tunisians... The doctor regrets that the French public hospital has to operate "
thanks to the importation of foreign doctors
".
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For lack of carers, a hundred services in France are no longer able to welcome the public normally, as at the Bordeaux University Hospital since Tuesday.
To compensate for these absences, many hospitals rely on the recruitment of foreign emergency physicians.
A situation that the president of the Association of hospital emergency physicians of France deplores in an interview with Ouest France on Wednesday.
According to Patrick Pelloux, this need to have recourse to foreign labor is due to the lack
of “places for young French people in nursing or medical studies
”.
The emergency physician therefore calls for “
forcing the deans of the faculties to increase by 50% the number of students received in the first year of medicine
”.
Lack of attractiveness
Another factor that repels young French doctors according to the president of the Association: the lack of attractiveness.
Patrick Pelloux proposes in particular to remunerate "
nurses, nursing assistants and paramedics when they are in their second or third year of training
".
In the same way, he insists on financially valuing the night work as well as the guards.
These schedules "
lower life expectancy and aggravate chronic diseases
", believes Patrick Pelloux, according to whom the remuneration for these hours should be doubled.
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Despite the constant recruitment of foreign emergency physicians, the approach of summer with the influx of tourists to the seaside areas and the fear of high temperatures, worries Patrick Pelloux more.
“
It is going to be excruciating.
We are going to have unexpected and involuntary deaths in the structures
, ”he warns.
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