“Each time, we alert, and each time I tell myself that it’s worse and worse“Stéphane has been a nurse for 28 years and has never experienced such a critical situation”we lack all the staff“.
Today at the Georges Daumézon Mental Health Hospital, there is a shortage of about thirty nurses. The positions are open, but no one to apply, regrets the management. It is because of this shortage that 17 beds will close in a “crisis unit” in August, where patients are most vulnerable.
“We are mistreated but also mistreated”
Monday, June 27, around thirty nursing staff but also technical staff of the establishment were mobilized to cry out their despair: “We are abused but also abusedregrets Emma, a nurse for two years.It’s the job I want to do, but what’s certain is that I don’t want to do it like that” she says. She details the difficulties of setting up workshops with the young people she supervises, or even the necessary interviews with them.
Better working conditions
“We’re going back 30 years in psychiatry“regrets Sandrine, nurse and CGT union secretary. Among the demands, better remuneration, more students trained, but also a training center attached to the establishment, to help increase its attractiveness.
A motion was proposed by the unions to the management, to then be sent to the public authorities. The latter promised to submit it, after rewriting. The strikers promise for their part to scrutinize the modifications made before accepting it.