In the midst of an emergency crisis and a few days before the legislative elections, hospital staff mobilized on Tuesday to demand salary and staff increases, while the executive awaits the result of the "flash mission" ordered by Emmanuel Macron.

For this first day of action of the second Macron five-year term, nine unions and groups of caregivers organized rallies in at least fifty cities.

Thus in Paris, between 200 and 300 demonstrators found themselves in front of the Ministry of Health at the start of the afternoon.

Including Corinne Panot, nursing assistant from Méricourt (Vosges) to recall that "beyond salary increases, it is above all human resources that we need".

There were about as many of them in Toulouse, where Hélène Isus, a nurse at the CHU, explained that she wanted to "do (her) job correctly, not having to choose between patients".

Same crowds in Grenoble and Nantes, where child psychiatry nurse Ronan Tréguer was exasperated: "It's been a mess for years and we're fed up.

Our working conditions are deplorable and the patients are suffering”.

“Our working conditions are deplorable”

“There is a lot of professional fatigue, we are called back on our days off”, underlined Noëlle, nursing assistant at the Rennes University Hospital, where a hundred people marched from the University Hospital to the regional health agency (ARS).

It is in the emergency room that the fire is smoldering: for lack of caregivers, at least 120 services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count at the end of May from the Samu-Urgences de France association.

Its president, François Braun, must also submit the conclusions of the "flash mission" by the end of June to the Head of State, who promised in an interview with the regional press on Friday "emergency decisions from July ".

The objective, "is to bring up all the good answers that can be put in place, from this summer", said Tuesday on France Bleu the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne

But for Marine Le Pen, "this measure has only one interest, it is to straddle the legislative election" of June 12 and 19.

The method does not convince either the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, who judges in a forum in Liberation that "the time for investigations has passed" and calls for "urgent negotiations on the organization of work" to get back on its feet. a hospital “on the verge of knockout”.

The flash mission, yet another report thrown into oblivion?

Expected at the turn, Mr. Braun assured last week that he did not intend to produce "an umpteenth report" but "to write the prescription" expected by the hospital, adding to have "already leads".

Some appear in a letter sent to the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, the day of her appointment and published on the website of Samu-Urgences de France.

They are sometimes consensual, such as the revaluation of night and weekend work, "very painful" but increased by only one euro per hour for nurses, which is "completely absurd", he underlines.

Other ideas are worrying, such as the obligation to call 15 to filter access to emergencies, implemented in Cherbourg or Bordeaux.

The option, however, has defenders in the majority, like the deputy for Charente Thomas Mesnier, also an emergency doctor, who deemed it necessary in the Sunday newspaper to "get back into crisis management mode to get over the summer", even if it means "refocusing" these services "on their real job, vital emergencies".

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