At the hospital, the mobilization resumes. Nine unions and collectives are calling on caregivers and other hospital workers to speak out on Tuesday, June 7. As in 2018, in 2019 and at the beginning of 2020, they are demanding increases and better working conditions. Eco guest of franceinfo, Professor Agnès Hartemann, head of the diabetology department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, considers that the Head of State, despite his commitments, is not there: “The president says he’s here, but he’s not here.”
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During the Ségur de la santé, the executive announced revaluations, and 19 billion in investments for hospitals. Recently, the Head of State also called on the health system to be “collective revolution“, building on a major conference that should begin this summer. But for Agnès Hartemann, “we will have to restore trust (…) The relationship of trust has been completely broken. Le Ségur gave birth to a mouse. There are urgent decisions to be made“.
People think the hospital has changed. Nope ! We are still in activity-based pricing and again with financial requirements, while we are in terrible anguish at not being able to treat our patients.
Agnès Hartemann, head of the diabetology department at La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospitalon franceinfo
The doctor recounts the evolution of his service in recent months: “In my department, I was forced to close ten out of thirty beds due to the departure of staff. What worries me is that people are well at work to treat patients well. This work is not only technical, it is human. You can’t do it with the fear in your stomach of making a mistake, and without having the time to talk to patients“. Agnès Hartemann also says she had to “to fight“, with a frame of care, for “keep a nurse, a caregiver for eight patients“.
The previous government announced an investment of 19 billion for establishments. But according to Professor Hartmann, these sums will be used “in part, to repay part of the debt“. On the ground, she says, the financial situation remains tense: “Recently, in my building, we had to fight again, and we got satisfaction. We had to choose between a device to perform electrocardiograms and a device to take blood pressure (…) We had to choose! The 19 billion, we don’t see it at all on the ground…“