After two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the hospital is in bad shape. Eco guest of franceinfo Tuesday April 5, Léonard Corti, intern in medicine, publishes In the hell of the hospital (Robert Laffont). Since the arrival of the virus, “a number of our colleagues, in particular the interns, were on edge, because we had to hold on, working 90 hours a week, doing call duty every two or three days“, explains the intern in medicine but “Now they are starting to decompensate for all that fatigue accumulated over two years.”
“Today, there are more and more burnouts, burnouts, anxiety disorders”indicates Léonard Corti, who is also president of the Union of Paris Hospital Interns. For him, the multiplication of sick leaves, added to the many departures, makes the situation even more difficult today than before the pandemic: “Now that the crisis is slightly passing, all this resurfaces and puts the hospital in even more difficulty.
During the first months of the pandemic, the lack of means was difficult: “There was a lack of everythingsays Leonardo Corti. A lack of protective equipment, masks, gowns, gloves, hydroalcoholic gels, medication. We were forced to manage the end of life with drugs that were not at all intended for that.”
This situation has created a lot of suffering, explains the intern in medicine, including among caregivers: “This is one of the reasons that leads caregivers to burn-out (…) when we cannot correlate the means that we are offered and the missions that are imposed on us.
The state has announced wage increases and 19 billion in investments in hospitals. But the future of the health system is not very present in the campaign. “The subject is complexanalyzes Leonardo Corti. The hospital, everyone has been there, but few people understand how it works“.”Our job as caregivers is also to make what is happening more transparent“, he believes.
Watch the show in full: