At the Lyon Sud hospital, the banners of the day of strike and demonstrations on Tuesday are still visible, Thursday, June 9, and the staff skeptical of the announcements of the Minister of Health. “It’s brew-broth, for me, we brew in a vacuum”summarizes Franck, laboratory technician.
This summer, his overtime will earn him twice as much, Brigitte Bourguignon having promised to reactivate, for the summer period, the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff and additional working time for doctors. “This is interesting news on the financial side, he replies, but that does not hide the fact that fundamental reforms must be made and that the hospital is completely overwhelmed and asphyxiated. I think this is just the beginning of some discussions that will continue, I think.”insists Frank.
“After the Covid, we also believed in it. There were gestures, revaluations, things like that. But in fact, that’s not the root of the problem in fact.”
Franck, laboratory technician at the Lyon Sud hospitalat franceinfo
The Minister also announced “an exceptional device” so that the students caregivers and nurses who have completed their initial training can start working without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma. This student caregiver, whom we meet in Lyon Sud, hopes for a summer salary: “It will necessarily be paid because there, I will be working. On the other hand, I will not work as a caregiver, I will work as a ‘functioning worker’. I will work as a caregiver, without having the diploma yet, with the remuneration, as it had been concluded, it had been said. Apparently it is writtenhe says.
Despite these financial measures, all caregivers say it: without a new bed and without hiring, the hospital will not last. “The boat is sinking and Mrs. Bourguignon provides us with a glass to bail out”denounced Wednesday on franceinfo, Thierry Amouroux, spokesperson for the National Union of Nursing Professionals. “Where are the major efforts to change the very nature of work today in public hospitals, namely the suffering that comes with doing your job badly and mistreating patients?”, questioned on his side François Salachas, neurologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris and member of the inter-hospital collective.