In Pau, a structure for people with multiple disabilities is desperately looking for nursing staff

“We are desperately looking for nurses, nurses, nursing assistants”, sorry Isabelle Moreno director of Arimoc, a non-profit association. But on his desk there are only three CVs. The structure which welcomes children and adults with multiple disabilities in Pau is empty of its nursing staff. “There, we have had 14 resignations since September out of a total of 100 employees. They go to hospitals or nursing homes.” Since the Ségur de la santé and the revaluation of 183 euros per month, salaries are more attractive. It is for this reason that Aurélie resigns. She is leaving in a few days, after ten years in the establishment. “I found something in a hospital environment, the salary is more interesting, she explains, I am leaving a job that I love. Unfortunately we are all there, we have to pay our bills. We will go on to something else without necessarily the desire. “

Three residents were hospitalized after having a bowel obstruction due to lack of monitoring. And it does not stop there. “Due to a lack of personnel, it may be necessary to make only one toilet with glove and bowl, a shower every other day, testifies France Pouy, the nursing health manager, it is not at all comfortable and increases the risk of pressure sores. “

“We have several residents who have skin damage. What we have never seen so far. It is very difficult. We are really drowned in the responsibilities and the worry.”

Florence Pouy, nursing health manager

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This weekend, a night nurse and a morning nurse are missing. But impossible to find temporary workers. So a decision is made: for their safety, children are sent back to their families. “We have to manage because they are our children “, comments a mother who picks up her boy, There it happens on weekends but if it happens during the week it is also problematic. Everything is getting complicated actually. ” Danny, another mother, is also worried about her son: “I am starting to have a certain age and take back a person with a very very heavy handicap, it is practically impossible, she explains. How are we going to do if there are not enough employees? What are we going to do with our children? “

Because their fear is that the structure will definitively close for lack of personnel. So everyone is calling for a homogenization and generalization of the Ségur plan to all professionals in the field of disability. According to the French cerebral palsy federation, there is a lack of between 10 to 30% of professionals depending on the establishments and geographic areas.