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Covid-19: Have hospitals recruited enough caregivers?

2020-10-28T19:08:53.545Z


DECRYPTION - Caregivers were sorely lacking during the first epidemic wave. What about six months later?


Masks, gowns, medicines… and caregivers.

This is what was lacking during the first epidemic wave.

More than six months later, have hospitals recruited massively?

If the hospital management ensure they do the maximum, in the field, the health professionals are bitter.

"We are approaching this second wave with fewer staff than in the first

," deplores Christian Lemaire, secretary of the SUD-santé union at the Angers University Hospital.

Today, we have a minimum number of nurses and orderlies, which does not allow any flexibility. ”

Same story in Annecy:

“People have left, positions are not filled, absenteeism is not replaced.

The usual problems, what

, sums up, weary, Dr Renaud Chouquer, resuscitator at the Annecy hospital center.

Yesterday afternoon, two nurses were missing on the evening service.

The executives worked all day trying to find some. ”

This hospital suffers the full brunt of its proximity

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Source: lefigaro

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