They denounce a “desperately mistreated hospital”. A day of action and mobilization is organized, Tuesday, June 7, at the call of nine trade union organizations and collectives, to alert on the “situation of the public hospital and also that of the medico-social and social”, they wrote in a press release. An alert before having, according to them, “count the dead” lack of resources to care for the sick.
At a time when public hospitals are suffering from a serious lack of caregivers and are worried about the summer, “access to primary care is more and more complicated and the hospital no longer fulfills its role as a public service of last resort”, deplore the organizations which call for the strike. For lack of caregivers, more than a hundred services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count at the end of May from the Samu-Urgences de France association..
Rallies are planned in at least 50 cities, according to a list drawn up on Friday by the CGT: in Paris in front of the ministry from 1:30 p.m. as well as in Grenoble, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse among the main ones, but also smaller ones. like Aurillac, Epernay or Cherbourg.
This day of mobilization comes as Emmanuel Macron announced, on May 31, the launch of a “an emergency mission, a flash mission” one month to be able “from this summer, provide very strong responses to consolidate our emergencies in this period”. She was assigned to François Braun, president of the Samu-Urgences de France union (SUdF). He will submit a report on “July 1 at the latest to the Minister of Labor” who will explain where the gaps are “territory by territory” to be able to encrypt them and “illustrate the first tracks”explained the President of the Republic.
“We are going to objectify things and review, territory by territory, the shortcomings that there are in terms of general practitioners and specialized health professionals”he continued. “We are also going to look, hospital by hospital, at the difficulties observed: fatigue of caregivers, repeated sick leave, inability to recruit (…) to have a complete map at the start of the summer”.
On the same day, the main union of gynecologists warned that the shortage of carers had “reached a critical level” in maternities, posing a risk of “unexpected summer closures”. “The accident is imminent”, alerted the Syndicate of gynecologists-obstetricians of France (Syngof) in a press release, alerting to the lack of doctors (including pediatricians and anesthetists) and midwives.