Journalist and former nurse, Nora Sahara publishes "Hospital, if people knew ...", a book in which she reveals many problems which, according to her, plague the French hospital, regardless of the Covid-19 crisis.

She specifies them at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff in the program "It feels good".

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A month before the first confinement, the nursing staff demonstrated for the improvement of their working conditions.

A request temporarily put aside by the health crisis linked to Covid-19.

It is these problems of the public hospital that the journalist and former nurse Nora Sahara denounces in her book 

Hospital, if people knew…

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She describes at Anne Roumanoff's microphone scenes that say a lot about the ills that afflict French hospitals.

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The shortcomings of concealed doctors

In her book, Nora Sahara, for example, tells about the bad behavior of certain doctors.

She thus tells the story of a surgeon who trembles and to whom no one says anything, and that of a department head who arrives heavily drunk in the operating room.

"You should know that the majority of doctors do their job in an extraordinary way," warns the journalist.

"But what I'm saying is a reality. And it's not just me saying it."

Citing other books on the hospital, she compares this structure to "a black box where tragedies take place which are always hidden".

Faced with this omerta, the solution could be, according to her, to film the operations.

"There are abuses that are hidden and we must fight against that. We need transparency," explains Nora Sahara.

A difference in treatment between patients

The book Hospital,

if people knew… 

also points to the difference in treatment made between certain patients.

Nora Sahara describes how care was refused to an unemployed and undocumented patient, on the false pretext that he was aggressive with caregivers.

She also tells how a lawyer throws objects in the faces of nurses, without anyone saying anything, for fear of a lawsuit.

"It is also a reality. There are plenty of testimonies to this effect," said the former nurse.

"At the hospital, we make the difference between those who risk suing us, who risk damaging the reputation of the establishment, and those who have no power. And that's it today. which is damaging. "

Hospitals dressed up for political visits

According to Nora Sahara, this situation would be difficult for politicians to apprehend.

A nurse explains in his book how hospitals are always presented to them in their best light during official visits.

"When there are accreditations, when there are visits, we remove from the schedule all those who risk denouncing things", explains the journalist.

"Like that nurse who tended to say when things were not going well, he was never on schedule then."

After the publication of this book, Nora Sahara does not hope to be received by political leaders.

"I am not political and I do not do politics," she argues.

"But I just ask them to read this book to see the reality on the ground."