The day after a call to demonstrate everywhere in France from hospital staff, the Minister of Health Brigitte Bourguignon announced this Wednesday first measures to try to stem the crisis in the emergency services before the summer, during an intervention at the Emergencies Congress in Paris. Announcements without waiting for the end of the information “flash mission” launched by Emmanuel Macron on the emergency situation.
Overtime paid double
“Summer will be difficult” and it will take “find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care”, said the minister, while 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count released at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association,
The executive has in particular “decided to reactivate the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff, and additional working time for doctors, for the entire summer period”.
Brigitte Bourgignon also announced “an exceptional device” so that “Nursing students and caregivers who completed their initial training in June and July (can) start practicing immediately, without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma”.
Retired caregivers “volunteers to resume an activity” this summer will benefit from “facilities for accumulation (with) their retirement pension”. The regional health agencies (ARS) will have to “remobilize territorial crisis management systems” to coordinate public hospitals, private clinics and liberal professionals.
These “first measures will soon be supplemented by the proposals of the Braun mission”, she added. Emmanuel Macron asked Dr François Braun, head of emergencies at the CHR in Metz and president of Samu-Urgences de France, to oversee the “flash mission”, the results of which are expected before July 1.