Doctors, nurses or caregivers.
Many of them were waiting for a presidential speech.
While emergency personnel are in crisis, the presence of Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday May 31 in the Cherbourg hospital center was closely scrutinized.
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Accompanied by the new Minister of Health Brigitte Bourguignon, the President of the Republic notably announced the launch of a “
flash mission
” throughout the month of June with the aim of identifying and quantifying the shortcomings of each hospital.
From July, the Head of State wishes to launch “
a conference of stakeholders
” in order to take concrete action.
An ambitious program, according to Emmanuel Macron, which should lead to a "
real collective revolution
".
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For now, however, mistrust reigns.
To the question: “
What have you learned from the statements of the President of the Republic?
“, Nicolas Kazolias, nursing assistant at the Tenon hospital in Paris, laughs several times: “
They are making fun of us, aren't they?
»
He, who has worked in the emergency room for 11 years, "
just has the feeling of not being heard
".
"
We have been warning about the coming disaster for at least two or three years,
" he laments.
The ARS has access to all this information in real time.
Why do we still have to spend time researching?
It's completely above ground
."
"
It's too late
"
Responsible for this “
flash mission
”, Doctor François Braun was questioned on this subject on Wednesday at the microphone of France Info.
“
The objective is that this is not yet another report
”, developed in particular the head of emergencies at the Metz-Thionville hospital, explaining that he already had “
tracks on the problems
”, which the health crisis has reinforced.
But the explanation is not enough to convince Alain, nursing assistant at the Bordeaux University Hospital, whose regulation of night emergencies has persisted for several weeks.
The union representative especially fears "
a delay similar to that of Ségur
" with "
an implementation six months after the launch
".
“
In the best case, when will we have results?
In January ?
It's too late
,” he said impatiently.
Because time is running out: “
Our deadline is summer.
We have been alerting since 2019. It is not a month before we have to wake up
”.
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Same feeling for Jérémy Chanchou, caregiver in the Arles emergency room and member of the interurgence collective.
“
Summer is in a few days and we expected something more concrete from the president
,” he explains.
"
Everyone is deserting, the doctors are leaving one by one, and I really think that this could cause deaths this summer
", warns the caregiver, who does not see "
how a 'flash mission' could solve the things
”.
An air of “déjà-vu”
For Jérémy Chanchou as for many emergency physicians, the evil is deep.
Aware of this problem, François Braun has already advanced the lever of a salary increase.
A nurse who works at night or on weekends on “
very difficult
” hours and that “
nobody wants to do
”, is only paid “
one euro per hour net
”, he admitted on France Info.
"
It's absurd and of course we will have to look into this problem
," adds the doctor.
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This recognition of the lack of attractiveness is already "
a good point
", believes Thierry, also infirm in the emergency room of Arles.
But the latter deplores an air of “
déjà-vu
”: “
The bonuses supposed to calm us down at the end of the Ségur were derisory.
It must be understood that distress is the result of a whole
”.
"
What exhausts us is spending hours running around to find places for patients, keeping people on a stretcher for 24 hours or hammering nails into the wall to hang pockets on infusion
", continues the nurse, before concluding: "
I'm not sure that a one-month mission can change that
".