“A new mission for what?”, asks on Tuesday May 31 on franceinfo Pierre Schwob Tellier, night emergency nurse at Beaujon hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine) and member of the Inter-urgences collective. Traveling to the Pasteur hospital in Cherbourg (Manche) on Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron announced the establishment of a one-month “flash mission” to take stock of the difficulties encountered by the emergency services and then to “from this summer, provide very strong responses to consolidate our emergencies in this period”said the head of state.
Pierre Schwob Tellier is very skeptical: “It seems to me that the reports of the Senate and the National Assembly have already described the situation in the hospitals.” The Inter-urgent collective “don’t expect much” of this mission entrusted to Professor François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences de France. “I have more fears than hopes”adds Pierre Schwob Tellier.
He “recalls that the last mission on emergencies led to the 2019 refoundation pact and this resulted in the establishment of an emergency package”. Since January 1, 2022, all patients who go to the emergency room without being subsequently hospitalized must pay 19.61 euros. “So, we await with fear the result of this new investigation because we feel by listening to certain speeches that professors and emergency doctors want to limit the right to access to care on our territory” while he “is already not egalitarian at the present time”.
Pierre Schwob Tellier “does not currently see any solutions to reopen emergencies by summer”. According to him, it will be “extremely difficult if not impossible”. This nurse has a bitter feeling. “Let’s be clear, the Inter-urgences collective has denounced the lack of capacity in the public hospital, for three years, even before the Covid”. He recalls that in 2019, a large part of the emergency services was on strike for several months, to ask for more means.
“Three years ago, we announced that we were going straight to a collapse. We are now in the collapse.”
Pierre Schwob Tellier, Inter-emergencies collectiveat franceinfo
According to him, the Ségur de la santé “has absolutely not answered the questions of the public hospital. We have never had an overhaul of the public health system”. This claim is still carried by the collective Inter-urgences. “We must stop this race for savings, with even more oppressive management. We must restore the attractiveness of our profession, including for night work and weekends”he insists.
“We must stop the closing of beds, the mergers with huge hospital projects which will be care factories. We need a complete overhaul of the health system. We must rethink health for the needs of the population and not for the economic necessity of our country”concludes Pierre Schwob Tellier.