“It’s a shame, we don’t need to create jealousy between people“, regrets Anne Geffroy-Wernet. Anesthesiologist-resuscitator at Perpignan hospital, she is also president of the National Union of anesthetists-resuscitators. The premium of 100 euros net per month from January concerns only intensive care nurses. “This does not concern nurses from other services, nor nursing aides, physiotherapists, nor doctors, while the whole hospital is making an effort to take on Covid and non-Covid patients in difficult conditions. .”
Anne Geffroy-Wernet welcomes the measure “because the nurses in real life deserve it“, corn “they are little crumbs instead of taking the whole problem.“The president of the Syndicate of anesthetists-resuscitators also regrets a measure which risk of “divide and rule“.
“Rather, we need human resources“, recalls Gwenaëlle Lepine. The secretary of the CFDT Santé-Social union in the Pyrénées-Orientales evokes”the tensions“at Perpignan hospital, but also in nursing homes and in home care services.
A few days before New Year’s Eve, staff are recalled on their leave to compensate for gaps in services. “It’s been like this for two years, remarks Gwenaëlle Lepine. Health care is managed on an accounting basis, with a policy of bed closures for several years.“