“Caregivers must not become targets,” reacted the spokesperson for the National Union of Nursing Professionals on Tuesday after the death of a nurse, attacked on Monday at the Reims University Hospital.
“35 nurses are attacked every day in the hospital, whether in the emergency room, in psychiatry or in nursing homes”alert Tuesday May 23 on franceinfo Thierry Amouroux, spokesperson for the National Union of Nursing Professionals, who regrets that the hospital is no longer a sanctuary after the knife attack which cost the life of a nurse Monday May 22 at University Hospital of Reims.
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“Caregivers are there to protect and must not become targets”, he adds, indicating that assaults have increased in recent years. Their severity has also evolved. “Where in the past we had insults, we often have acts of violence, slaps, punches”denounces Thierry Amouroux.
For the SNPI spokesperson, this violence is explained by the lack of resources allocated to the hospital. “Little by little, we are suffocating the hospital with fewer and fewer resources. Psychiatry no longer has the means to provide care properly, we have a lot of patients in default, it’s the same thing at the level of emergency room”he berates.
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“In terms of emergencies, we have closed 95 emergency services in twenty years. All the misery of a population pool that used to be spread over three services is concentrated in hyper emergency services. On the one hand, there is starts with the hours of waiting before seeing a doctor and then the risk of spending days on a stretcher while waiting for a hospital bed to become available”, lists the professional. A situation which, according to him, leads “necessarily on violence from patients or families”. The Snip spokesperson also criticizes “the hypocrisy of the government” in the face of this tragedy.
“The government continues to cut off our supplies and there, acts as if it was in no way responsible for the situation which is degenerating”
Thierry Amouroux, spokesperson for the National Union of Nursing Professionalsat franceinfo
He claims “means for the hospital”. According to him, increase the protection cameras “will not solve the basic problem which is the lack of means to treat patients correctly in order to prevent some of them from crossing the line and attacking caregivers. For us, that is not part of risks of the trade, it is unacceptable”. Thierry Amouroux also wants more support from hospital management by filing a complaint “systematically” as soon as a carer has been the victim of an assault.