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On Tuesday, June 7, hospital staff demonstrated to demand salary and staff increases, because 120 emergency services are currently operating partially due to lack of staff. The mobilization was less strong than expected, but it mobilized everywhere in France.
In Manosque, in the Alpes de Haute Provence, the hospital is under great strain. Worried patients came to support the striking caregivers on Tuesday, June 7. Lhe management has had to close the doors of the emergency rooms regularly since January, for lack of staff. This critical situation alerts the inhabitants, like a young epileptic patient. “If they close and I have a really big meltdown and there’s no [a] nobody, I can die of it”she testifies. In this hospital in a rural area, there are now nine emergency physicians. Everyone fears more closures during the summer.
In total, according to a collective, 120 emergency services would be in high tension everywhere in France. The lack of arms was denounced in the afternoon in a parade in Paris. In a Toulouse hospital, there are also many strikers. In question ? The pressure following the increase in the number of patients, with an average of 250 people per day to be cared for.