“The world of psychiatry is sorely lacking in resources”, warns the Health Collective in danger

“The world of psychiatry is sorely lacking in resources“, said Monday, May 22 on franceinfo Dr. Arnaud Chiche, anesthetist-resuscitator, president of the Collective health in danger, after the knife attack perpetrated by a man on a nurse and a medical secretary at the University Hospital of Reims (Marne) in department of the occupational medicine and health unit. The suspect suffers from severe disorders and has been the subject of a reinforced curatorship measure for several years. Psychiatry needs “specific personnel who must be valued“.

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“Since the Covid crisis, there has been a deleterious climate“, notes Arnaud Chiche, with “many caregivers threatened, who were pressured“, with sometimes “death threats“but who remain”most often in the epistolary register“. But he warns that, “when somewhat fragile minds take hold“of this deleterious climate,”we can end up in such dramas“. It is necessary according to him “a lot of vigilance on threats or aggressiveness that can be expressed with caregivers, including on social networks“.

Traveling to Reims with the victims and hospital staff, the Minister of Health François Braun promised to bring together “before the end of the week, a committee with all the parties, the unions, professionals“in order to act”as soon as possible, to see what can be done to guarantee even more safety for caregivers“.

“I hope that the Minister will want to lend a little attentive ear to the world of mental health, which really needs resources at the moment.“, reacts Arnaud Chiche. “Maybe even more security is needed. Perhaps even more personnel dedicated to the safety of caregivers are needed. Maybe more controls are needed“, wonders the president of the Collective health in danger. He recalls that violence begins with “incivilities“. It is therefore necessary, according to him “to be quite intolerant on these subjects“.

If he can miss”human resources to guarantee the safety of caregivers“, Arnaud Chiche recognizes that”we can never make the hospital a closed place“. The hospital is “an open place for families, for caregivers, for patients. And so we absolutely have to find stratagems to be able to both provide care and secure everyone.“, adds the president of the Collective health in danger.