caregivers demand salary and staff increases

In Manosque, in the Alpes de Haute-Provence, the hospital is under great tension. Worried patients came to support the striking caregivers on Tuesday, June 7. The management must regularly close the doors of the emergencies since January, for lack of personnel. This critical situation alerts the inhabitants, like a young epileptic patient. “If they close and I have a very big crisis and there is no one, I can die”, she testifies. In this hospital in a rural area, there is currently a shortage of nine emergency doctors. 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 linked to the increase in the number of patients, with an average of 250 people per day to be cared for.