Armando Paz Paredes (left), neurosurgeon in Marseille, demonstrated on June 4, 2020 during the Thursdays of Anger. - J. Saint-Marc / 20 Minutes

  • The management of the AP-HM believes that it has weathered the coronavirus crisis "with a certain serenity on the budgetary level. "
  • Some caregivers in Marseille confirm that “the financial aspect was not a problem during the crisis. "
  • But they are worried about the future and will protest every Thursday at 1 p.m. in front of the Timone.

Armando Paz Paredes' cry of anger is louder than the noise of his maracas. "We're out of breath," thunders the neurosurgeon, met during the first Thursday of anger. Until the end of the "Ségur de la Santé" in mid-July, Marseille caregivers will disengage and demonstrate every week in front of the Timone. But Armando Paz Paredes considers that “the dilapidation of structures is the same in Paris, Lyon, Lille or Marseille. The whole country is experiencing the same explosion. Everyone is short of staff, beds, equipment. "

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However, not all public hospitals are as heavily in debt as those in Marseille. At the end of 2018, the AP-HM posted almost a billion euros in debt. "This financial aspect was not too much of a problem during the Covid-19 crisis," says Armando Paz Paredes.

"A certain serenity"

"We faced this episode with a certain serenity on the budgetary level," boasts Pierre Pinzelli, secretary general of the AP-HM. He specifies that "the revenue for 2019 was guaranteed by the State, which also quickly paid an additional envelope of five million euros in cash advance. The violence and suddenness of the health crisis therefore got the better of activity pricing (T2A). At least temporarily.

"T2A is aberrant, it must be flattened out," growls Professor Jean-Luc Jouve, head of the pediatric orthopedic surgery service. The Covid was only a revealer of what had been denounced for a long time. Caregivers are overwhelmingly pessimistic about the outcome of the "Ségur de la Santé", a major consultation which should end in mid-July. “Emmanuel Macron's speech expressed his emotion, but that of the Matignon technocrats with whom we negotiate is tight. They don't give up, ”said Jean-Luc Jouve in a general assembly last week.

"Nurses must not remain underpaid"

The only progress: the salary increases promised to nurses. "It's hard work, poorly paid: in my service, 7 of the 64 positions are vacant," says Professor Fabrice Michel, head of the pediatric resuscitation department. For her sister Anne Dutour, head of the endocrinology department at the Conception Hospital, “it is important that the nurses no longer remain underpaid, but we must also think globally about the organization of the hospital. "

Eric Chanudet, pediatric anesthesia nurse, refuses to “get back on board this magnificent sinking ship. France ranks 22nd out of 33 OECD countries in terms of average nursing compensation. Vocations are lacking and doctors are tearing their hair out. According to Anne Dutour, if the crisis was well managed in Marseille, it is because “the administrative staff, lost, left governance to the carers. For only two months. "We have already completely lost power," laughs the professor.

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