- Thursday, in a letter made public by "Liberation", 25 emergency doctors of the Toulouse University Hospital announced for Monday their resignation en bloc.
- They denounce the withdrawal of the additional means put in place to get through the Covid-19 crisis and the impossibility in which they would find themselves of ensuring the safety of their patients.
- Management for its part indicates that a long-term negotiation, interrupted by the health crisis, has just resulted in the granting of new allocations.
A big blow of mouth after a huge blow of pump. At the Toulouse University Hospital, the respite provided by the health crisis has turned into a crisis altogether. In a letter unveiled Thursday in a column of Liberation , 25 emergency doctors of the establishment - nearly a third of the workforce - announced that they will resign en bloc next Monday. Not their administrative functions, as Toulouse caregivers regularly do. Simply their job. They will look elsewhere if the standards are less overheated and the ears more receptive.
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- Nessajel #StayTheFuckHome #StayAtHome (@Nessajel) July 9, 2020"We choose to leave our functions in an institution where the only of our demands, that of the safety of our patients, is treated with the greatest contempt", write the rebel doctors struggling with "an unsustainable daily life". And in their exhaustion, they become caustic: “Ah, they were loud the applause, every evening at 8 pm. They were tearful, the declarations that we were doing a great job… ”
"Working in fear"
So what sparked the powder? The resigners, already mobilized before the coronavirus, explain that, the past crisis, all the means imagined in the urgency to pass the course were withdrawn. Exit, the additional “lines of care”, in fact complete teams of six doctors and six nurses, exit the precious device of “light vehicles of general medicine” (VLMG) which allowed a tandem general practitioner / nurse to intervene the overnight at home with a fully equipped ambulance. "The management of the Toulouse University Hospital has decided to suspend all of these means, forcing us to work in fear," said the courier. The permanent fear of not being able to carry out our missions in the face of the needs of the population. "
The direction of the CHU and the regional health agency (ARS) do not explain quite the same thing. They indicate that discussions on the means of the Pole of emergency medicine were effectively interrupted by the health crisis. But they have resumed since June 4 and resulted precisely Thursday in concrete measures. The creation of a medical and nursing binomial in particular and the return of the famous VLMG "from September 15", after evaluation of the device by a working group.
"They are not fighting for money but for their patients"
So can things still work out? Vincent Bounes, the boss of emergencies and Samu 31 hopes, pointing out above all a problem of timing, between long-term negotiations, effectively suspended for months, and the means of crisis. "I expected the team to be tired but I probably underestimated their exhaustion after months of work without a day off," he said at 20 Minutes . Means were effectively withdrawn two weeks ago but after a big week of negotiations we obtained means yesterday which will relieve us. "
The manager assures not to misuse this public display. "They are lovely people, caregivers who are not fighting for money, but for their patients," he said. Vincent Bounes also notes in passing that the patients are more demanding, less understanding, now that the worst is over, contributing to great general fatigue. The doctor hopes that he will not receive these famous letters of resignation. Verdict Monday.
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