Caregivers facing the 2nd wave of Covid-19
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How is the medical world facing the health crisis?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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Since Friday, October 30, France has been confined again for a period of at least one month;
with the hope of breaking the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
This re-containment was hoped for by many caregivers, faced with the massive arrivals of Covid patients.
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The first epidemic wave of last March, reactivated the already old claims of hospital staff, health and medico-social sectors, who denounce the lack of staff and beds and demand salary increases.
Despite the announcements made last July following the Ségur de la Santé, the account is still not there and the discomfort persists.
In 10 years, the hospital has lost 15% of its staff.
The 15,000 recruitments announced will not even compensate for this loss.
How is the medical world dealing with this crisis?
Prof. Frédéric Adnet,
Head of the Emergency Department of the
Avicenne hospital
and Medical Director of the
Samu of Seine-Saint-Denis
.
Author of the book
Les Fantassins de la République.
COVID emergency: a spring in hell
at Flammarion editions
Magali LEO
, Head of the Advocacy department for the
Renaloo patient association
Dr Jérôme Marty
, general practitioner and president of the
French Union for free-union medicine (UFML-S)
Frédéric Gautron,
nursing assistant for 25 years, works in the medical intensive care unit of
Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris
.
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