The first post-deconfinement event at the Toulouse University Hospital. - B. Colin / 20 Minutes

  • On the first day of deconfinement, a demonstration took place in front of the Toulouse University Hospital at the call of the CGT and South unions.
  • While healthcare workers were in high demand during the epidemic, protesters are calling for recognition by additional human resources and wage increases.

"After the applause, we hope that people will be behind us for the future." Fabienne works in the consultation service of the obstetrics service of the Paule-de-Viguier hospital, in Toulouse.

At the beginning of the afternoon this Monday, this member of the nursing staff of the Toulouse University Hospital took part in the first post-confinement demonstration, in the name of the freedom to claim.

"Better paid hero"

Hidden, the dozens of people present on the Purpan site asked that the recognition not stop at symbols, but pass by means. “I just ran into a colleague who had had an expired mask for two years… We don't have the equipment. In obstetrics, we do some of the work of the secretaries, confined to their position, but without additional arms. The expectation is that the heroes will be better paid, not in bonuses, because we won't know if we will have them, but in salary increases, ”pleads Fabienne.

Demonstration outside the Toulouse University Hospital to ask for additional resources # 11May #Deconfinement pic.twitter.com/XWfLSRt3vQ

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A demand shared by the South unions and CGT, at the origin of the call to demonstrate. “We are asking for real means of protection, in particular masks, some are forced to wear them for 8 hours without it meeting standards. It is all the more worrying that we have escaped the big wave here. The hospital held on because there was a suspension of other procedures. There, our apprehension is for the continuation, it will be necessary to catch up with the 2,000 deprogrammed interventions with the same means, whereas it was already the crisis before ", insists Pauline Salingue, CGT secretary of the CHSTC of Purpan who requests the creation of 1,500 on Toulouse CHU sites.

Meeting patient expectations

A call to strike which will have been followed by 0.87% of CHU employees according to management. For her, the health crisis has made it possible to find new ways of working. "There are difficulties, it is the normal life of any large institution, but our hospital has shown its ability to organize quickly, to protect its staff and its patients," said late last week. its managing director, Marc Penaud.

Rather than answering "in terms of surface area or number of beds", the latter prefers to respond to "patient expectations" and focuses on the interaction of tomorrow between the hospital, city medicine and telemedicine, which is widely used. in the past two months.

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