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Halfway to the "Ségur de la santé" launched by the ministry, supposed to improve wages and prospects for the development of health professions, the caregivers are again on the street on Tuesday to put "pressure" on the government and obtain a costed plan, as explained at the microphone of Europe 1 Sophie Crozier neurologist at Pitié Salpêtrière and representative of the Collective Inter-Hospitals.
"A rapid increase in wages"
The "Health Ségur" wanted by Olivier Véran must lead by mid-July to a generalized increase in wages, but for the moment, no figure is announced. "For ten years now, successive austerity plans have led hospitals into a fairly catastrophic situation, on which we have been alerting for a year now with the inter-hospital collective. We have major problems with staff recruitment and closed beds lack of staff, "recalls Sophie Crozier.
However, she continues, everyone saw during the coronavirus crisis "that to treat well, it was to have staff in the bed of the patients". For this there is only one solution, according to her: "a very rapid revaluation of wages so that we have an attractiveness of all trades and in particular low wages."
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"We don't see anything coming"
The measures proposed so far are very insufficient, she says. Because "if we estimate a salary increase to arrive at the OECD average, for certain categories of staff, it is several billion. So the 10, 75, 100 million promised so far, it is not enough. "
As for the Ségur, it seems to Sophie Crozier absurd that there is still no "announced quantified plan. There is an exasperation of the whole of the hospital body over this lack of quantified measurement. There have been everything else, aeronautics, companies, ... and nothing for the hospital. There is undoubtedly a real desire, but we see nothing coming. " However, she said, "everyone agrees on this salary increase".
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Tuesday's mobilization is therefore the way to put a little "pressure" to speed things up. "All these measures have only one goal: to improve the reception of patients. We want to be able to do our job with suitable means, in acceptable conditions," concludes the representative of the Inter-Hospital Collective.