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In an article published in Le Monde, Thursday October 5, 1,200 members of hospital medical staff warn about their working conditions and reception of patients.
It’s a platform that sounds like a cry of alarm. In the newspaper The worldThursday October 5, 1,200 members of hospital medical staff alerted about their working conditions. They point the finger at 15, the SAMU emergency number in France, “become the triage tool to access emergencies“. The signatories mention the closures of emergency services, the poor conditions in which patients are received, but also the elimination of 80,000 hospital beds between 2003 and 2019. A subject that raises questions for themuntenable ethical dilemmas“, they write.
“The business hospital”
“Currently, due to the resignation of staff, in some hospitals in France there are up to 30% closed beds, sometimes entire wards. To prevent you from ending up on a stretcher in a corridor, we will be obsessed with the idea of sending you home“, warn health professionals. They finally denounce the sorting of patients, which is part of a logic that they call “the hospital business“. Faced with this situation, the signatories ask the deputies to vote on the bill already adopted by the Senate which provides for ratios of caregivers per number of patients in the hospital.