The grumbling broods in hospitals, which have been confronted for many weeks with the coronavirus. The doctors of the Inter-hospital Collective (CIH) asked Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday to honor the appointment he had promised them at the end of February and to quickly increase the budget and hospital salaries as he has undertaken since .
"Between ignorance and contempt, we will have to choose and not ride the wave of empathy for caregivers without doing anything when we get to the actions," warns neurologist François Salachas, who had questioned the President of the Republic during a visit to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, during a sequence that quickly went viral.
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"Does our word need to be heard?"
More than two months later, "the appointment was not honored," regretted Dr. Salachas during a press conference, asking that this interview take place "within deadlines which must be short". He also reiterated the request, supported by many caregivers, for a massive investment plan for the hospital, with increased budget and salaries.
"Is our expertise worth anything? Does our word need to be heard? This is the question of the meeting that we asked him. I think there will be a blockage if he don't realize that, "continued the neurologist. "There is a real emergency, now is the time to hire in hospitals," he added.
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"Nothing happened"
The confidence of caregivers, already eroded by months of strikes and demonstrations, is today suspended from the "massive investment and revaluation plan" announced at the end of March by Emmanuel Macron.
"Strong words", which "aroused hope", but "nothing happened", deplored for his part Jean-Luc Jouve, orthopedic surgeon in Marseille, for whom the premium of 500 to 1,500 euros that will affect hospital staff at the end of May "cannot in any case replace a revaluation". A wage demand that the CIH wants to "make heard" at a time when "the subject of the public hospital disappears a little", insisted Olivier Milleron, cardiologist in Paris.