“If in the next few months nothing is done, we will see battalions of caregivers leave the hospital”, reacts Frédéric Valletoux on franceinfo, president of the Hospital Federation of France, Together candidate for the legislative elections and mayor of Fontainebleau. Tuesday, June 7, at the call of nine unions, hospital staff were mobilized to demand increases in wages and staff. In Paris, between 200 and 300 people gathered in front of the Ministry of Health in the early afternoon.
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A rather weak mobilization that Frédéric Valletoux explains by the fact that “caregivers are overwhelmed in hospitals” : “And even if they feel what the strikers express, that is to say the discomfort in the hospital, the desire for reform, the desire to give prospects to their career, it is not as long as they are going to give up their service.”
“Today, hospital workers feel that what weighs on their shoulders is the dysfunctions of the health system”points out the president of the French Hospital Federation. “If liberal medicine were not itself in crisis, with fewer and fewer general practitioners everywhere on the ground, no doubt the hospital would be less in demandhe explained. There are difficulties inherent in the cumbersomeness of the administrative management, in the accounting rationalization that we have operated.” The hospital crisis is “Ancient” and was “camouflaged by the Covid crisis, but the basic problem is still there”he believes.
The mayor of Fontainebleau and candidate Together in the 2nd district of Seine-et-Marne sees the launch of the “flash” mission proposed by Emmanuel Macron on May 31 as a good omen: “The causes and the symptoms, we know them. The reality of the crisis, less.”
According to him, “we still had to give ourselves the time. But behind, indeed, we will have to go very quickly on the answers”. Then he adds: “If caregivers and hospital workers have the impression that we are going back to a cycle of rationing, with overflowing emergencies, that nothing is resolved, well that’s when they are going to give up their blouses. And there , the hospital will be really in trouble for the moment.