Three days after the fatal attack on a nurse at Reims University Hospital, François Braun called for "zero tolerance" against violence against caregivers, during a meeting boycotted by most hospital unions who denounce a "communication operation".
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Against violence against caregivers, the only position is zero tolerance, "said the Minister of Health, in the introduction of this meeting convened urgently after the death of Carène Mezino, a 38-year-old nurse stabbed earlier this week at her workplace in Reims by a man suffering from psychiatric disorders. "An unspeakable tragedy" that illustrates "a context of increased violence," said François Braun, calling on representatives of health professionals and the hospital sector to "not let anything pass".
"We will be intractable"
Whether it is an insult, a threat or a spit, "the filing of complaints must be systematic" and employers "each time in support and support," insisted this former head of emergencies of Metz. The minister also called hospitals to account, for which the State spends 25 million euros per year to secure the premises, from parking lighting to the digicodes of secure doors. "That's what this envelope is for, and I want to know how it's used," he added. Other measures will follow "quickly", he promised. A report on the safety of caregivers is to be submitted on June 1 to its Minister Delegate Agnès Firmin Le Bodo. "We will be intractable," she said Thursday, wishing to "reflect on that the criminal response is also."
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But the approach is not unanimous. Four of the five main unions of hospital staff (CGT, FO, SUD, Unsa) have decided "not to participate in this meeting, which, for us, is only a communication operation," said Didier Birig, secretary general of FO-Santé, who came before the ministry to justify this boycott. "To begin with, we let the funeral pass before doing anything," he said, denouncing a ministry "with absent subscribers" on "staffing, budgets, working conditions," which he said are the root of the problem. Diagnosis shared by his counterpart at Unsa-Santé, Yann Le Baron: "changing digicodes and putting cameras, that's not what will make security. Security will be there when there are the necessary manpower to properly care for patients."